Flipclockfans | Rediscovering History - Josef Pallweber invented the first Cyclometer Clock @Flipclockfans | Uploaded March 2023 | Updated October 2024, 54 minutes ago.
For many years we have been told by various sources that the cyclometer-type clocks, that is, clocks that display time with digits using rolling wheels, were invented in the 1930s. We know that these types of clocks were very popular in the 1950s and were sold from the 1930s up into the 1970s even.

However, due to clock collectors and searches of German patent records, we have discovered that in fact, Josef Pallweber invented the first "rolling wheel" clock in 1888.

Patent DE000000048142A on German Patent Site
Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt
depatisnet.dpma.de/DepatisNet/depatisnet?window=1&space=menu&content=treffer&action=pdf&docid=DE000000048142A

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Photos of the Pallweber Cyclometers
Daniel Harlow and David Molyneux

Pennwood Tymeter Mechanism Video
PERFORMA
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