| People love clocks with cuckoos popping out and | | | | Ketterer is given credit for inventing the first cuckoo |
| chirping to announce the time. It has been estimated | | | | clock in 1738. The clock used pendulums, gears, |
| that over 30 million cuckoo clocks have been built and | | | | bellows, and pipes that worked together to push the |
| sold over the past 250 years. Since the 1700s the | | | | cuckoo out the door and chirp in two tones. Cuckoo |
| Black Forest region of Germany has been famous for | | | | clocks became an important export of the Black |
| their cuckoo clocks. The two Black Forest styles are | | | | Forest. People specialized in tasks such as making |
| the traditional cuckoo clock and the Bahnhäusle | | | | pendulums, cutting out gears, and carving the clock |
| cuckoo clock. The Swiss have been building the | | | | cases. Over time, Black Forest cuckoo clocks became |
| chalet cuckoo clocks since the late 1800s. Extremely | | | | quite fanciful with carvings of antlers, oak leaves, |
| ornate cuckoo clocks became popular among wealthy | | | | ferns, edelweiss flowers, and forest creatures, such |
| people in the Victorian period and the Roaring 20s. | | | | as hares, pheasants, eagles, foxes, and alpine goats. |
| Today, the cuckoo clocks in most peoples' homes | | | | The traditional clocks became extremely popular in |
| are in the Black Forest and Swiss Chalet styles. | | | | the hunting lodges of wealthy Europeans and the |
| The original German cuckoo clocks were the | | | | British. Rifles, trophies, and bugles were added to the |
| traditional clocks that were wooden houses and | | | | designs of some traditional cuckoo clocks. |
| cuckoos carved by the Black Forest artisans. Anton | | | | |