Josh Clark

And of course, you're referring to the long case clock.

It didn't get the name grandfather clock until 1820.

I'm sorry, 1876.

And that's actually from a song called My Grandfather's Clock.

That's where it's about.

I mean, it's kind of a sad song about a clock that this this guy had who or his grandfather had and.

It quit working when he died, and it was a really popular song, so Long Case Clocks became my grandfather's clock.

And the singer, and I think writer, was a guy named Henry Clay.

Not Henry Clay People, but Henry Clay Work.

You know, that's a redux of our first short stuff.

I thought we had talked about that, right?

That was the very first short stuff.

Yeah, grandfather clocks.

Man.

So pendulum clocks, everyone said, this is great.

I love these long case slash grandfather clocks.

But finally in the 20s, people had figured out, I guess centuries before in the 19th century, a century before that you could keep time with a crystal clock.

They produced reliable oscillations that you could track for time, and people figured out how to use that on watches.

For that, I would say go listen to our atomic clock episode.

Yeah, that was a good one.