Mainspring

Medieval · Household · 1430

TL;DR

Mainspring - requires enrichment with adjacent possible narrative

Mainspring - requires enrichment

What Had To Exist First

Preceding Inventions

Fully mechanical clock

What This Enabled

Inventions that became possible because of Mainspring:

Balance spring Pocket watch

Biological Patterns

Mechanisms that explain how this invention emerged and spread:

Path Dependence

Related Inventions

Balance spring Fully mechanical clock Pocket watch

Tags

Timekeeping

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