Cuckoo clock History

In 1629, several decades before watchmaking was established in the Black Forest, a nobleman of Augsburg by the name of Philipp Hainhofer (1578-1647) wrote the first known description of a cuckoo clock. The clock belonged to Prince Elector August von Sachsen.
In a textbook widely known tune "Musurgia Universalis" (1650), the scholar Athanasius Kircher describes a mechanical organ automatic with several personalities, including a mechanical cuckoo. This book contains the first description in words and pictures of how a mechanical cuckoo. We must assume that Kircher did not invent the cuckoo mechanism, because this book, like his other works, is a compilation of facts known in a reference manual. The engraving shows clearly all the elements of a mechanical cuckoo. The bird automatically opens its beak and two coups wings and tail. At the same time, we hear the call of the cuckoo, created by two pipe organs, listening to a minor or major third. There is only one fundamental difference of the Black Forest-type mechanism cuckoo: The functions of the Kircher birds are not governed by a wheel to count a train strike, a barrel stuck program synchronizes the movements and sounds of 'bird.

In 1669, Domenico Martinelli, in its manual on basic clocks "Horologi Elementari", suggests using the call of the cuckoo to indicate the hours. From the time the mechanism of the cuckoo clock was known. Any engineer or watchmaker, who could read latin or Italian, knew after reading the books he is quite feasible to have the cuckoo announce hour.
The result, cuckoo clocks appeared in regions that had not been known for their watches.
A few decades later, people from the Black Forest began to build cuckoo clocks.