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who invented clock?
An African American named Benjamin Banneker invented the clock around the year 1750 when he was just 21 years old. He saw a famous u.s surveyor with named Andrew Ellicott who had a pocket watch which amazed benneker. Andrew ellicott gave the pocket watch to banneker and banneker invented the clock, a bigger version of a watch. Ellicott's brother joseph wanted banneker to build a clock to determine the correct calculations of stars in the sky. In otherwords, joseph ellicott was into astronomy.


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