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The alarm clock was invented by someone who hated joy and loved mornings.

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Alarm clocks date back to ancient Greece, where Ctesibius made a water clock that sounded an alarm. Levi Hutchins reportedly built a mechanical one in 1787, and inventors didn't hate joy.

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