When was the snooze alarm invented

By Meghan Overdeep. Save FB Tweet More. Woman Sleeping in Bed Holding Phone. Aidan Richardson a year 7 student from St Ninians Primary in Scotland , has decided to go the one step further to get you out your comfy bed.

Your worst nightmare or an ingenuous invention? The alarm clock Alarm clock: The first alarm clock was created in ancient Greece, by Ctesibus, a Hellenistic engineer and inventor. In order to change them you had to change the fundamental mechanisms of the clock itself. It was also around this time that scholars find references to clocks made of gears and weights. These clocks worked in much the same way as the water counterparts in their use of gravity, but now there was a physical weight instead of pouring water.

Ultimately, clocks stayed the same for hundreds of years, until the advent of microchips and digital technology. So where, you ask, does Lew Wallace factor into all of these useless clock factoids? Well, the clock has undergone several innovations and improvements, one of which is the advent of the snooze button.

The snooze button was probably heralded as a humane addition to the good old alarm clock because it seemed logical at the time. The idea of being able to turn off your alarm, without the risk of completely disregarding your normal wake up time and missing appointments or other responsibilities, must have seemed like a modern luxury in the s.

One can even argue that the snooze button can be addicting. With a normal sleep-wake routine, it can sometimes feel like your schedule is the boss of you; but the snooze button lets you be the boss—for about ten minutes at a time, until you finally roll out of bed and get ready for work. So you hit snooze once or twice. What happens after? Why do you sometimes feel tired and drained throughout the day, even with a few more precious minutes of sleep added to your routine?

Here is where it gets interesting. Many studies show that sleep deprivation—and the lack of energy and alertness associated with it—affects attention, behavior, decision-making capabilities, and even physical health. That familiar but unwelcome feeling of grogginess and disorientation that comes with waking up too early is sleep inertia at work.