Who built the first timepiece?
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If we count sundials, we are talking ancients.  Even water clocks and timed candles (with lines on them for how long it burns in an hour) are pretty ancient.
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The first hobbing machine built in the Hückeswagen factory called  Klingelnberg,\n\nHeinrich Schicht\nInventor of the\nKlingelnberg-Gear hobbing machine\nhttp://www.klingelnberg.info/en/company/historie.php
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he created the first laser
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The first telescopes may have been Assyrian crystal lenses[1], but the Visby lenses tentatively suggest that the technology was known to the Arabs and Persians, then to the Vikings, in the 10th century. Leonard Digges is sometimes credited with the invention in England in the 1570s, but usually credit for assembling the first telescope is given to an unknown Dutch spectacle maker in about 1608. Some name that person as Hans Lippershey (c. 1570 – c. 1619), but Jacob Metius and Zacharias Jansen also claimed to have invented a telescope during the same period. Even if Lippershey did not make the first one, he publicized it. Galileo Galilei made his own telescope in 1609, calling it at first a "perspicillum," and then using the terms "telescopium" in Latin and "telescopio" in Italian (from which the English word derives). Galileo is generally credited with being the first to use a telescope for astronomical purposes. Galileo's telescope consisted of a convex object lens and a concave eye lens, which is universally called a Galilean telescope (used as a viewfinder in many simple cameras). Later, Johannes Kepler described the optics of lenses (see his books Astronomiae Pars Optica and Dioptrice), including a new kind of astronomical telescope with two convex lenses (a principle often called the Kepler telescope). Optical interferometer arrays and arrays of radio telescopes were developed much more recently. Telescopes have been around for a while.
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The first recorded thermometer was produced by the Italian, Santorio Santorio (1561-1636) who was one of a group of Venetian scientists working at the end of the Sixteenth Century. As with many inventions the thermometer came about through the work of many scientists and was improved upon by many others.\n \n1596 \n Galileo Galilei and the first thermoscope\nGalileo Galilei is often claimed to be the inventor of the thermometer. However the instrument he invented could not strictly be called a thermometer: to be a thermometer an instrument must measure temperature differences; Galileo's instrument did not do this, but merely indicated temperature differences. His instrument should rightly be called a thermoscope.\n\nThe Thermoscope\nThe predecessor to the thermometer, the thermoscope is a thermometer without a scale; it indicates differences in temperature only ie it can show if the temperature is higher, lower or the same, but unlike a thermometer it cannot measure the difference nor can the result be recorded for future reference. The thermoscope was widely used by a group of scientists in Venice that included Galileo. It was only a small step from the thermoscope to the thermometer. \n\n1612 \n Santorio Santorio - the first thermometer\nThe Italian, Santorio Santorio (1561-1636) is generally credited with having applied a scale to an air thermoscope at least as early as 1612 and thus is thought to be the inventor of the thermometer as a temperature measuring device. Santorio's instrument was an air thermometer. Its accuracy was poor as the effects of varying air pressure on the thermometer were not understood at that time. \n\n1654 \n The first sealed liquid-in-glass thermometer\nThe sealed liquid-in-glass thermometer, more familiar to us today, was first produced in 1654 by the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Ferdinand II (1610-1670). His thermometer had an alcohol filling. Although this was a significant development his thermometer was inaccurate and there was no standardised scale in use. \n\n1714 \n The first mercury thermometer\nGabriel Fahrenheit (1686-1736) was the first person to make a thermometer using mercury. The more predictable expansion of mercury combined with improved glassworking techniques led to a much more accurate thermometer. \nFahrenheit - the first Standard Thermometer Scale\nFahrenheit used the newly discovered fixed points to devise the first standard temperature scale for his thermometer. Fahrenheit divided the freezing and boiling points of water into 180 degrees. 32 was chosen as the the figure for the lower fixed point as this produced a scale that would not fall below zero even when measuring the lowest possible temperatures that he could produce in his laboratory - a mixture of ice, salt and water. It is sometimes suggested that Fahrenheit divided his scale into 100 degrees using blood temperature (incorrectly measured) and the freezing point of water as fixed points - this is not true. The Fahrenheit scale is still in use today. \n\n\n\n1731 \n The Réamur Scale\nIn 1731 the Frenchman, René Antoine Ferchauld de Réamur (1683-1757) proposed a thermometer scale on which the freezing point of water was 0° and the boiling point was 80°. The Réamur scale is not in use today. \n\n1742 \n The Celsius Scale\nIn 1742 a Swedish scientist named Anders Celsius (1701-1744) devised a thermometer scale dividing the freezing and boiling points of water into 100 degrees. Celsius chose 0 degrees for the boiling point of water, and 100 degrees for the freezing point. A year later, the Frenchman Jean Pierre Cristin (1683-1755) inverted the Celsius scale to produce the Centigrade scale used today (freezing point 0°, boiling point 100°). By international agreement in 1948 Cristin's adapted scale became known as Celsius and is still in use today. \n\n1848 \n The Absolute Temperature Scale or Kelvin Scale\nIn 1848 Sir William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs, Lord Kelvin of Scotland (1824 - 1907) proposed t
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If you remove the space it is "Albuse" and they are a watch brand. The word "Albuse" seams to be a German name, so it could be German watchmaker.
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The first elements were found before recorded history, so to ask the FIRST one discovered is a question that cannot be answered.
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John Vincent Atanasoff.\n\nIn 1939 Atanasoff recruited a graduate student to assist him with his computing project and was introduced to Clifford Berry, a gifted electrical engineer with a similar background to himself. A few months later, in December they presented the first prototype of the Atanasoff Berry Computer (ABC).\n\nAlthough the ABC utilized a mechanical clock system, the computing was electronic and for the first time in computing, vacuum tubes were used. Data was entered via punch cards and the ABC used two rotating drums containing capacitors to hold the electrical charge for the dynamic memory.
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the first man is correct...
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History\nAn odometer for measuring distance is described by Vitruvius around 27 and 23 BC. The actual invention may have been by Archimedes during the First Punic War. Hero of Alexandria describes a similar device in chapter 34 of his Dioptra. The device was also invented in ancient China by Zhang Heng (78 – 139).\n\nThe odometer of Vitruvius was based on chariot wheels of 4 feet (1.2 m) diameter turning 400 times in one Roman mile (about 1400 m). For each revolution a pin on the axle engaged a 400 tooth cogwheel thus turning it one complete revolution per mile. This engaged another gear with holes along the circumference, where pebbles (calculus) were located, that were to drop one by one into a box. The distance travelled would thus be given simply by counting the number of pebbles. Whether this instrument was ever built at the time is disputed. Leonardo da Vinci tried to build it according to the description but failed. In modern times, however, Andre Sleeswyk was able to make a working model using gears similar to the Antikythera mechanism as opposed to the traditional cogwheel.\n\nThe odometer as used in most modern systems, where separate gears control each digit, was invented by William Clayton with help from Orson Pratt. Clayton, a Mormon Pioneer, developed the odometer (dubbed the "roadometer") to keep track of wheel revolutions on the pioneer carts. The odometer had multiple gears, including one which turned every quarter-mile and one which turned every ten miles.
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Sorry, but the gear, like the wheel, has been around for so long that no one is sure who created it first.
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First was Technetium, as per the enclosed link
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Water Clocks\nClepsydra\nWater clocks, along with sand clocks, were one of the earliest forms of clock that didn't rely on the sun or other astronomical phenomena. As such they could be used at night and/or indoors. The Greeks called them "clepsydra", a name which means "water thief". It's thought that the actual use of these clocks was not normally to track "time of day" but to measure duration.\nThe earliest water clocks - which date back to at least 1500 BC - were very simple and basically consisted of a bowl with a hole! There were three main ways of using this to tell time: \nA bowl with a small hole in the base would be filled with water. As the water dripped out, the level would fall and the elapsed time could be read off according to markings on the bowl. \nOne water container would drip into a marked bowl which could be read accordingly. \nA bowl with a hole was placed in a water container and as it gradually sank it would fill and the elapsed time could be read according to the usual markings. \n\nMechanical Water Clocks\nAs technology advanced, water clocks became more elaborate. The principle remained the same - something emptying, something filling, or something sinking. However a variety of ingenious mechanical mechanisms were created for taking this motive force and making use of it. Other innovations included more sophisticated control of water flow than a drip.\nThese mechanical water clocks would display the time in a way closer to the form we know today, often by means of dials or pointers. Some of them also generated motion in the form of moving figures and ringing bells.\n\n\nTowers\nMechanical water mechanisms were used as the basis of some public clocks. One of the most famous was the Horologion of Andronikos of Kyrrhos, also known as the Tower of the Winds. The Tower of the Winds was built in the Athens marketplace, probably in the 1st century BC. It is an octagonal structure with the faces illustrating the winds along with sundials, mechanical time indicators and assorted astrological data.\nAnother famous water driven clock tower was Su Sung's Tower, also known as the "Cosmic Engine". The Chinese emperor employed Su Sung to build this famous astronomical clock tower. This was completed in 1094 AD and was a 30ft high tower with a 10ft high observation platform atop. The water powered mechanism showed the time, controlled mannequins ringing bells and kept the observational equipment correctly aligned with the heavens.
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This page gives a very nice table listing who, when, how, how accurately the speed of light has been measured including the first time when Olaus Roemer did it in a really neat way 330 years ago!\n\nhttp://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SpeedOfLight/measure_c.html
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Neil Armstrong was the first.\nBuzz Aldrin was the second.
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The first known design for a robot was made by Leonardo da Vince in 1495, but there it is not known wether Leonardo himself ever attempted to make the robot. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo%27s_robot)\n\nThe first known robot construction was made by Jacques (de) Vaucanson in 1738. It is named The Flute Player. Later, he created The Tambourine Player and The Digesting Duck. It is \nreported that his original robots are all destroyed by now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Vaucanson
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Actually, it is documented.  The pulley was discovered by Archimedes.  He is known for his extensive work in geometry; and the invention of the lever and pulley. He also created a range of mechanical devices for the defense of his homeland - the catapult and a mirror system (for focusing the sun's rays on an enemy's boat causing it to catch fire). \n\n\nBorn: ca. 287 B.C. \nBirthplace: Syracuse, Sicily \nDied: ca. 212 B.C. \nBest Known As: Ancient Greek mathematician who said "Eureka!"