He noticed that he could keep the pendulum moving at a pretty good tick ... clock works assembled. Crafted out of wood, he uses a 15-tooth primary drive ratchet, which powers two 60-tooth gears ...

Figure 1 shows a simplified view of this mechanism. 1 Tick tock Simplified schematic of a pendulum clock mechanism. When the pendulum swings one way (a), the escapement releases the gear attached to ...