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INVENTION OF POCKET WATCH: 1500
Coiled springs became a power source for clocks
in Italy around 1450. Peter Henlein (1480-1542),
a locksmith from Nuremberg Germany began making
portable clocks known as Nuremberg eggs which used
this coiled spring design as the power source.