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The first strides in making mantel clocks were found in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. They were created of iron and were wound with the help of weight. The very first mantel clocks were alike to tower clocks. They had the same scheme and elements.
In the Gothic epoch clocks were put in walls' consoles. Wooden console became a part of the frame of clocks after a few ages and it was stylized to the whole clocks ensemble. Of course, in the Middle ages and later it was one of the most important parts of a room's decoration. Every home adhered to the trend that was fashionable during the age and a clock was a part of the entire design ensemble of the house. Later on professional clockmakers appeared. Such people as Roentgen, Goutier and Benemann began to work over the appearance of their clocks. Their clocks were definitely magnificent and there were no analogs in the world. Only at the end of the eighteenth century the remakes of the most remarkable exemplars were found.
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