In 1787, American Levi Hutchens created a mechanical alarm clock with the specific purpose of waking him up every day at 4 AM. He never patented this creation, however.

I have reinstated the alarm clock. An overlooked mechanism in today’s technologically-synced, your-phone-does-everything world, it tells the time, it wakes you up, it is decentralized from a ...

But the world’s first mechanical alarm clock — the kind closer to what we use today — was invented in 1787 by Levi Hutchins, a clockmaker in New Hampshire, USA.

However, the modern alarm clock as we know it first appeared in the 18th century. In 1787, an American named Levi Hutchins is credited with inventing the first mechanical alarm clock .

In 1787, American watchmaker Levi Hutchins created the first mechanical alarm clock. However, it was set to ring only at 4 a.m.! So, most people still had to use alternative methods to wake up.

Long before smartphones, the snooze feature existed in mechanical timepieces. Because of the way their gears were designed, it was nearly impossible to allow exactly 10 minutes of extra sleep ...

Watches can do plenty more than simply tell the time — some display calendar information, while others record elapsed minutes or show the phases of the moon. One particularly quirky (though useful) ...

Hutchins never patented or manufactured this clock. It was years later, in 1874, when the French inventor Antoine Redier became the first person to patent an adjustable mechanical alarm clock.