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 .

The first adjustable mechanical alarm clock was patented by French inventor Antoine Redier in 1847. In taking apart the clock, Jack has zeroed in on the escapement as the issue, which stopped ...

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.