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The first mechanical clocks were built in Europe in the late 1200s, and nobody knows who made them. They were huge machines of iron wheels and weights, and they had no face or hands. Their job was to ring a bell on the hour, which is where the word "clock" comes from, since it goes back to an old word for bell.

Towns put them in tall towers so everyone could hear the bell, and faces and hands came along later. A clock built around 1386 at Salisbury Cathedral in England still survives. It has no face either, and it's often called one of the oldest working mechanical clocks in the world.