A Brief History of the Cuckoo Clock

There are two legends surrounding its beginning. The first legend is that a clockmaker named Anton Ketterer from Germany's Black Forest added a cuckoo bird to one of his existing clocks around 1738 and the cuckoo clock was born. The second story is that a Bohemian peddler (from what is now the Czech Republic) traveling through the Black Forest sold two cuckoo clocks to the clockmakers there. They copied the clock design and began the thriving cuckoo clock industry of the Black Forest. Since

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