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Former senior engineer to clockmaker Matthӓus Hipp and director of the Favarger (later FAVAF) company.

Often dubbed the ‘father of electrical horology’, Alexander Bain came from humble beginnings. Born in a small croft to a[...]

Milan-born architect and urban designer, specialising in industrial buildings, who also worked on a range of product designs during the[...]

Founder of the Princeps Company, former radio researcher.

French engineer and inventor best known for his electricity meters, but also a maker of mantel clocks.

Swiss watch and clockmaker, born in Le Locle and operating a factory manufacturing electric rewound clocks from 1900.

Feodosii Mikhailovich Fedchenko was born into a peasant family in Kiev. He served in a tank unit during World War[...]

ffolliott Gray was born in 1883 in Bradford, where he attended technical college and trained as an engineer before moving[...]

British horologist and pioneer of electrical timekeeping. Co-founder of the Synchronome company and author of Electrical Timekeeping, in addition to[...]

Former collaborator of Frank Hope-Jones, inventor of the 'Synchronome Switch' and later owner of the Silent Electric Clock Company. Image[...]

Swiss clockmaker, pioneered the countwheel in electric clocks in the 1890s.

American inventor and pioneer of the synchronous motor clock; founder of Warren Telechron Incorporated. Image by Neonedge, via Wikipedia.

Clock collector.

Watch- and clockmaker active in France in the later nineteenth century.

Johann Antel was born a farmer's son in what is now Lhota u Konice in the modern district of Prostejov.[...]

Son of John Richard Lund, principal of Barraud & Lund, who took over the firm on the death of his[...]

Engineer working for T & F Mercer, St Albans.

Swiss electrician; designer of early electricity meters.

French watch and clockmaker, founder of the 'ATO' company and pioneer of battery technology during the 1920s.

Zurich-based clockmaker, founder of the Swiss Magneta Company.

Like many pioneers within electrical horology, Matthaus Hipp also worked in telegraphy. Born in Blaureuren in 1813, the son of[...]

German precision clockmaker. Image via Wikipedia.

American electrical engineer and designer of 'Eureka' clock, patented with the support of the Kutnow Brothers of New York in[...]

Railway engineer, who began experimenting with precision timekeeping in collaboration with Frank Hope-Jones, director of the Synchronome Company, from 1912.[...]