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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