Show 1 1 seth both thomas thoma had monopoly 1 1 tho it e first important clock factory in Ai was established by seth thomas Thorn ns who nho long held a monopoly of the clock bolting molting industry in the united states among the prized heir heirlooms looms of many american ican families are old seth both thomas clocks and ad many of them are still ticking away the earliest ancestor of the clock was the sun dial and this hla was supplanted by the water clock which wits invented in rome about 2000 deais ngo ago tho the next improvement was lie substitution of a weight for or the w o ru water 0 and about the year 1000 the pendulum was invented |