1675 | Technology

Technology

London watchmaker Thomas Tompion, 36, improves on the design of watches; following a design by experimental physicist Robert Hooke, he produces one of the first English watches to be regulated by a balance spring (see minute hands, 1670; cylinder escapement, 1695).

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