The Wikipedia article on the history of timekeeping devices, consulted for the earliest attested European verge-escapement clocks in the 1280s and for Su Song's 1092 water-driven astronomical clock tower in Kaifeng. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_timekeeping_devices
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History of Timekeeping Devices (Wikipedia)
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- Open Questions, 8 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 connected, 1 general references.
- Inventions, 5 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 1 general references.
- Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.
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