Clock Making
- Anchor escapement - Robert Hooke
- First accurate atomic clock - Louis Essen
- Balance spring - Robert Hooke
- Balance wheel - Robert Hooke
- Co-axial escapement - George Daniels
- Grasshopper escapement, H1, H2, H3 and H4 watches (a watch built to solve the longitude measurement problem) - John Harrison
- Gridiron pendulum - John Harrison
- Lever escapement The greatest single improvement ever applied to pocket watches - Thomas Mudge
- Marine chronometer - John Harrison
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