The automatic watch has become one of the most popular styles of watch on the market and a symbol of luxury. The concept of a watch that uses your kinetic energy to keep it powered throughout the day has captured the attention of the watch-buying public for decades.
However, there have been other styles of watch since that have gained increasing popularity over the years. In contrast to the automatic watch, in the s watchmakers began trying to create electric watches. The first of these electric watches came about in the s and kept time by using a solenoid to power the balance wheel. Some more advanced models used a steel tuning fork, instead. In , Seiko started working on a watch that could be powered by a quartz crystal and a battery, and at the Summer Olympics, they had a working prototype.
This watch was used to time events at the games that year, and it did fairly well. Come , the first official quartz watches hit the market.
Inside the watch, instead of a mainspring, you would find a quartz crystal set to a certain hertz level that was powered by a battery. The quartz movement is unlike that of the past. In place of a mechanical balance wheel and other parts, quartz watches used a digital counter.
Over time, these watches would become increasingly popular because they were cheap and easy to make. The highest quality quartz watches were also, at times, more accurate than some mechanical watches of the day.
However, quartz watches have lost a lot of their luster today. In a world with smartwatches that can tell you the time and the weather, people buying traditional watches are typically looking for a piece of jewelry rather than a utilitarian timepiece.
In some ways, no! The watches you buy today are very similar to the first wristwatches soldiers used during the war. Components have changed, and watchmakers have found simpler ways of accomplishing the same goal.
But, the basic function of a mechanical wristwatch has not changed much over the years. What is the difference between an automatic and quartz watch?
Automatic watches are watches that wind themselves as you wear them. They harness the kinetic energy of your wrist motion and use that to wind up the mainspring, which powers the watch. In contrast, a quartz watch uses a quartz crystal powered by a battery to help it keep time.
In general, quartz watches are cheaper than automatic watches, but there are exceptions to this. Basketball is built into the fabric of Springfield College. The game was invented by Springfield College instructor and graduate student James Naismith in , and has grown into the worldwide athletic phenomenon we know it to be today. Springfield College students continue to be innovators and leaders in their fields. Learn how you can join the prestigious alumni network by exploring our academic programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels, offered both in-person and online.
We welcome you to our "Where Basketball is Invented" webpages, celebrating Dr. James Naismith's connection to Springfield College as a graduate student and instructor who invented the game here in Springfield, Massachusetts as part of his work with the College. The story of how Naismith invented the game through a charge by Luther Gulick then the College's physical education superintendent to come up with a new indoor activity that could be played by college students during the long New England winters is well known.
What isn't often told is that he created the game in our Springfield College Humanics philosophy - educating students in spirit, mind, and body for leadership in service to others. He would later recall that it was his commitment to the Springfield College philosophy of serving others that inspired him to create this great game - a game that soon spread beyond our campus, throughout New England, and around the world, impacting the lives of hundreds of millions across all ages.
Springfield College continues today to inspire leaders to change the world. In addition to these pages, I hope you also explore our Springfield College website to learn about other inspiring leaders from Springfield College's past, present, and future. Perhaps you will also see how you may benefit from a Springfield College education, as well. A visit our Springfield College museum which, through exhibits, displays, and artifacts, highlight's Dr.
Naismth's and our other world leaders' impact on the world, is a great way to learn more and to experience why we are so proud of Dr. Naismith and all our alumni. It was the winter of The young men had to be there; they were required to participate in indoor activities to burn off the energy that had been building up since their football season ended.
The gymnasium class offered them activities such as marching, calisthenics, and apparatus work, but these were pale substitutes for the more exciting games of football and lacrosse they played in warmer seasons.
The instructor of this class was James Naismith, a year-old graduate student. After graduating from Presbyterian College in Montreal with a theology degree, Naismith embraced his love of athletics and headed to Springfield to study physical education—at that time, a relatively new and unknown academic discipline—under Luther Halsey Gulick, superintendent of physical education at the College and today renowned as the father of physical education and recreation in the United States.
As Naismith, a second-year graduate student who had been named to the teaching faculty, looked at his class, his mind flashed to the summer session of , when Gulick introduced a new course in the psychology of play. But now, faced with the end of the fall sports season and students dreading the mandatory and dull required gymnasium work, Naismith had a new motivation.
Two instructors had already tried and failed to devise activities that would interest the young men. So Naismith went to work. His charge was to create a game that was easy to assimilate, yet complex enough to be interesting. It had to be playable indoors or on any kind of ground, and by a large number of players all at once. It should provide plenty of exercise, yet without the roughness of football, soccer, or rugby since those would threaten bruises and broken bones if played in a confined space.
Much time and thought went into this new creation. Duck on a rock used a ball and a goal that could not be rushed. Naismith approached the school janitor, hoping he could find two, inch square boxes to use as goals. The janitor came back with two peach baskets instead. This Day In History. History Vault. Recommended for you.
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