Fred's Fun Fact: Alarm Clocks!

Listen to this fun fact about alarm clock!

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Did you know the first ever alarm clock could only
ring at four am, which that would have worked for
most of us.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Yeah, would have been perfect.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
When my alarm goes off the first time, the seventh
time is around four to fifteen as I hit snooze
over and over again. The first American alarm clock was
invented by Levi Hutchins in seventeen eighty seven. It took
sixty years for the French inventor Antoine Radier. I don't
know if I said there right to a patent, An

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adjustable one. But yes, the very first alarm clock would
only ring at four o'clock in the morning.

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