Christiaan Huygens was born on 14 April 1629 in The Hague, into a rich and. His invention of the pendulum clock was a breakthrough in timekeeping, and he. In 1656, Christiaan Huygens built the world's first pendulum clock. It was far more reliable than any previous mechanical timepiece. For nearly 300 years, the. Huygens's Clocks Revisited. Erica Klarreich. In 1665, the great Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens, inventor of the pendulum clock, wrote to the Royal Society of. Christian Huygens invented improved lenses and clocks, He generally wrote his name as Christiaan Hugens, and it is also sometimes written as Huyghens. Christiaan Huygens was a mathematician, physicist and astronomer who formulated the wave theory of light. He also discovered the pendulum clock.
8 Jun 2012 Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens proposed the earliest theory about Huygens also invented the first pendulum clock, with an error of less. In 1656 Dutch mathematician, astronomer, physicist and horologist Christiaan Huygens invented the pendulum clock in 1656 and patented it in 1657. Biography of Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695) In 1656 he patented the first pendulum clock, which greatly increased the accuracy of time measurement.