The alarm clock was thought to be invented by Marquis de Sade but was actually invented by Levi Hutchins in New Hampshire in 1787.
The first alarm clock would ring only at 4am. Hutchins the invented of the alarm clock was murdered by none other than his wife at 4:05a.m. On a dark cold New England morning.
Some alarm clocks can even be powered by lemons. For all those guys out there you can wake up to a stripper pole alarm clock. You get strip tease music, flashing lights and a girl spinning around a pole!
Then there is the Christian Alarm Clock that will wake you up each Sunday to get to church on time. There is an alarm clock manufactured by Lumie that gradually lights up the room just like natural sun-light.
The word clock comes from the French word, “cloche: meaning bell.
