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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Fred Show is on Friend's fun fact Fred.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Learn so much? Did you know? Did you know?

Speaker 3 (00:17):
And this would have worked out well for us and
maybe only us. But the first alarm clock could only
ring at four a m. The first alarm clock, invented
in seventeen eighty seven by Levi Hutchins of Concord, New Hampshire,
or conquered on the device that he made only for himself,

(00:38):
could only ring at four a m. He made it
in order to wake up for his job back in
seventeen eighty seven doing god knows what morning radio.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Probably he was doing morning radio before the radio.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
However, the it was a French inventor named Antoine Rideer
was the first to patent an adjustable mechanical alarm clock,
and that wasn't until eighteen forty seven. So the first
alarm clock could only ring it four in the morning.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Oh yeah, why'd you do that? I mean he had
to get up to a show. He needed it.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
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