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For children there are teaching and talking alarm clocks that will make telling time much easier for your little ones.

A couple of tech guys have designed an alarm clock that is powered by a lemon! Wow…now that is environmentally friendly!

It is thought that alarm clocks can help you get into aregular sleep pattern, but that is not true. Only go to sleep when you are tired and wake up naturally.

There is the Christian Alarm Clock that will wake you up each Sunday to get to church on time.

Today people rely on their alarm clocks a lot more than they did in the past. This is because of the commitments we make to be in certain places at certain times of the morning.

1400

Some people think that an alarm clock was rst made in Germany. That alarm clock was made in the 1400's. It was a clock that hung on the wall. The clock was made of iron with a bronze bell. It was very heheavy.

1988

A new alarm clock that hung from the ceiling was released. When it was time to wake, a piece of the clock dropped on the sleeper. Sometimes it knocked out the person instead of waking the sleeper.

2013

Today there are many kinds of wake-up alarms. One alarm clock gives an electric shock. Another alarm clock makes the bed bounce when it’s time to wake. The Alarm-O-Bed lifts one side of the bed and tosses the sleeper othe sleeper onto the oor.

1787

In 1787, a clockmaker from New Hampshire made a clock that would "sound an alarm." His name was Levi Hutchins. He invented a clock that would wake him for work. It was very big and only rang at 4 a.m.

1876

Other people think the rst alarm clock was wind up and could be set for any time and was patented by Seth E Thomas in 1876.

Did you know that Charles Dickens suffered from insomnia? He also believed that he had the best chance of falling asleep when he positioned himself in the center of his bed facing directly north (?!). If he lived during our time period, his family and friends probably would’ve insisted that he attend therapy.

50 %10 Days 10 Days

Starvation Lack of Sleep

Time PeriodLife Left Humans will die from a lack of sleep much sooner than from starvation. A person will die in approximately 10 days from

a lack of sleep, but it would take several weeks for someone to die of starvation.

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