The first, and currently only, existing pulsar clock in the world was constructed in Gdańsk, in
St. Catherine's Church, in 2011, with its primary goal being verifying and possibly surpassing the accuracy of
atomic clocks. It receives radio pulses from pulsars by way of a
dipole antenna accompanying a
radiotelescope mounted on the
bell tower of St. Catherine's Church. It was created due to the initiative of the and built by a team of scientists, including Grzegorz Szychliński, the head of the of the Gdańsk Museum,
electrical engineers Dariusz Samek and Mirosław Owczynnik from the company EKO Elektronik, and Eugeniusz Pazderski, an
astronomer from the
Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. Another goal of the clock is to create a pulsar-based timescale surpassing the accuracy of all atomic clocks. Alluding to this, the clock began measuring time on his 400th birthday. On 5 October 2011, in the building of the
European Parliament, located in
Brussels, a
repeater of the original clock in Gdańsk was installed. ==References==