# Animation of Huygens clock power maintaining mechanism

A pendulum clock should not stop while being rewound; Christiaan Huygens already invented one mechanism the working of which is shown here, as an illustration for the Wikipedia page on maintaining power.

- Kind: Cartoon
- Year: 2020
- Runtime: 1 min
- By: RobertCailliau
- Genres: Animation
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Animation_of_Huygens_clock_power_maintaining_mechanism.webm)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) (as the archive states it)
- Credit: RobertCailliau
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/commons/91284660?play=1)