cuckoo clock

     

A cuckoo clock is a clock, typically penulum driven, that strikes the hours using small bellows and pipes that imitate the call of the Common Cuckoo in addition to striking a wire gong. The mechanism to produce the cuckoo call was installed in almost every kind of cuckoo clock since the middle of the eighteenth century and has remained almost without variation until the present.

Trivia about cuckoo clock

  • Classic versions of this timekeeper heard here come from southern Germany
  • A little birdie told us this timepiece was 1st made around 1750 in Germany's Black Forest
  • Not a Swiss man, but Ctesibius, a 3rd century Greek in Alexandria, invented this noisy timepiece
  • In 1738 Franz Ketterer created the first one of these clocks that chirp the time
  • You can recognize Germany's House of 1000 Clocks by its water wheel & this type of clock on the side of the house
  • The Alpine-Alpa Restaurant near Wilmot, Ohio has a 23 1/2-foot-tall one of these timepieces

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