PETER HENLEIN

peter Henlein (1485 - Aug 1542), was a locksmith and watchmaker from Nuremberg, Germany. He is often considered the inventor of the watch (Watch), although some say that others have ideas like him, but peterlah proven. Henlein was one of the first craftsmen to make small ornamental taschenuhr, a portable clock often worn as a pendant or attached to a garment that was considered to be the first watch. At a young age, Peter Henlein had been an apprentice as a locksmith. At that time, the locksmith was a skilled craftsman and was a new field in watchmaking, and Heinlein also included a watchmaker. On September 7, 1504, he was involved in a fight among fellow locksmith, George Glaser, dead. He sought asylum in a local Franciscan monastery, and he lived there for four years, until 1508. In 1509 he became a teacher in the city's locksmith guild. It became known as a small portable ornamental clock maker of brass-powered spring, the clock is very rare and expensive and is a fashionable statue worn among the nobility of the time.
The clock is sometimes worn as a pendant or attached to a garment, the clock can be considered as the first watch, although it is longer than 3 inches so it can not fit in the pocket. this clock is larger than the pocket watch that appears in the next century. After centuries and millennia’s of using analogue watch designs that used movement of the celestial bodies and flow of water to calculate passage of time, modern human civilization finally achieved mechanical and industrial environment in which precise clock could be made.
This invention was fueled by the previous works of many inventors all across the world, some that have been forgotten by history and some that are still known today for their inspiring work (like Su Sung’s masterful water clock from 1092). Even though pages of history have forgotten about many watchmakers and innovators before him, modern scientific
community has accepted that Peter Henlein, clockmaker from the Nuremberg, Germany, is the father of the modern clock and the originator of the entire clock making industry that we know today. After centuries and millennia’s of using
analogue watch designs that used movement of the celestial bodies and flow of water to calculate passage of time,
modern human civilization finally achieved mechanical and industrial environment in which precise clock could be made. This invention was fueled by the previous works of many inventors all across the world, some that have been forgotten by history and some that are still known today for their inspiring work (like Su Sung’s masterful water clock from 1092). Even though pages of history have forgotten about many watchmakers and innovators before him,
modern scientific community has accepted that Peter Henlein, clockmaker from the Nuremberg, Germany, is the father of the modern clock and the originator of the entire clock making industry that we know today.