Clockwork
"Well, have you managed to unlock the secret of clockwork yet?"
"Uh, I've found out that if you open it the wrong way the gears inside will kind of explode, and scatter across a very large area."
Utility
When it was discovered the first clockwork tinkerers didn't know what they would use their new invention for, other than develop it into automatic processes and devices. It wasn't before they'd experimented with their new technology they saw just how handy it would be.
Today, there is clockwork in many things used all over Elmazar. Two notable examples are the Time-Teller and the Clockwork Gondola.
As the Dwarves are a pacifist people, they refuse to let their technology be used for weapons.
Guarding Their Secrets
The clockwork technology is a well-guarded secret of the clockwork tinkerers in Elmazar. The tinkerers even go to great length putting in gears that does nothing in the mechanism to confuse people trying to reverse engineer the technology, as well as making the gears shoot out if the mechanism isn't opened in the exact right way.
The inventors of clockwork are a group of Ochdarki Dwarves who did as Dwarves do best - brainstorm in a team and come up with a good solution to a problem.
Clockwork devices often demand specialized tools to construct and repair, and can be very complex, consisting of hundreds of gears of variable size.
Originally discovered by Ochdarki Dwarves in the 1700s, it was first used for small trinkets and toys. It was discovered as a workshop full of Dwarves brainstormed how to make automatic processes. They found a way to make gears spin with the help of a wind-up spring. They saw the potential of their invention, but it would still be many years until they could use clockwork for anything more useful than a moving toy.
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