{"id":4087,"date":"2017-12-21T09:30:43","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T09:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadersaward.com\/?p=4087"},"modified":"2017-12-08T14:54:21","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T14:54:21","slug":"25-days-inventors-alarm-clock-run-away-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadersaward.com\/25-days-inventors-alarm-clock-run-away-clock\/","title":{"rendered":"25 DAYS OF INVENTORS: THE ALARM CLOCK &#038; THE RUN AWAY CLOCK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4088 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/leadersaward.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/alarm-clock-min.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leadersaward.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/alarm-clock-min.png 400w, https:\/\/leadersaward.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/alarm-clock-min-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/leadersaward.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/alarm-clock-min-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The alarm clock<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alarm clock: The first alarm clock was created in ancient Greece, by\u00a0Ctesibus, a Hellenistic engineer and inventor. He developed an elaborate system of dropping pebbles on to a gong in order to make a sound. This sound was set to happen at specific time intervals.<\/p>\n<p>Another mechanical alarm clock was created by\u00a0Levi Hutchins, of\u00a0New Hampshire\u00a0in the USA in 1787. The device he made was only for himself however, and it only rang at 4 AM, in order to wake him for his job. The French inventor\u00a0Antoine Redier\u00a0was the first to patent an adjustable mechanical alarm clock, in 1847.<\/p>\n<p>Lew Wallace came up with the the\u00a0snooze button. Popular opinion has it that the\u00a0snooze\u00a0was the feat, or fault, of Lew Wallace, the famous author of Ben-Hur. However, the Lew Wallace Museum asserts that Wallace could not have created the\u00a0snooze button, although he did\u00a0invent\u00a0a few other things.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/a-2000year-history-of-alarm-clocks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/a-2000year-history-of-alarm-clocks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4089 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/leadersaward.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/runnaway-alarm-clock-1-min.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leadersaward.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/runnaway-alarm-clock-1-min.png 400w, https:\/\/leadersaward.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/runnaway-alarm-clock-1-min-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/leadersaward.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/runnaway-alarm-clock-1-min-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aidan Richardson a year 7 student from St Ninians Primary in Scotland<\/strong>, has decided to go the one step further to get you out your comfy bed. Aidan\u2019s idea is the \u2018<strong>Run Away Clock<\/strong>\u2019 he found a problem that most people ignore their alarm clocks and quite often press the snooze button. Well Aidan\u2019s clock starts moving when it goes off making you get out of your bed to switch it off! Your worst nightmare or an ingenuous invention?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4090 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/leadersaward.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/runnaway-alarm-clock-2-min.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leadersaward.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/runnaway-alarm-clock-2-min.png 400w, https:\/\/leadersaward.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/runnaway-alarm-clock-2-min-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/leadersaward.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/runnaway-alarm-clock-2-min-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4092\" src=\"https:\/\/leadersaward.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/alarm-clock.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The alarm clock Alarm clock: The first alarm clock was created in ancient Greece, by\u00a0Ctesibus, a Hellenistic engineer and inventor. 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