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  1. INVENTION OF PENDULUM CLOCK: circa 1657
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  3.    Dutch physicist Christian Huygens demonstrated 
  4. how a pendulum could regulate a clock in 1657. In 
  5. 1667, English physicist Robert Hooke improved upon 
  6. the design by minimizing the required arc of 
  7. oscillation.
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