For centuries, we were content to use the sun, moon and stars for a vague sense of where we were in the day. How, and when, did this change? Take a look.
Ryosuke Fukusada designed COO and MOOV, a series of metal cuckoo and pendulum clocks, respectively, crafted from perforated ...
For more than a century, one clock has been keeping time in the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador. Clockmaker Chris ...
To avoid being overwhelmed by the myriad options when shopping for a clock, consider their key features to find the best wall ...
At 13-3, the Seahawks continue to be the front-runner for the first seed in the NFC. The Panthers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers' ...
And grandfather clocks, prized by some, but they tend to scare children, for many kid’s cartoons and stories seem to feature ...
In central Slovakia, the country’s largest cuckoo clock now marks the hour with folk musicians, blending superstition, music and craft.
Time is a quantity and term that is very difficult to define. The dictionary says that time is “a period or interval.” Another puts forth the definition as “a measurable ...
Simply sign up to the Technology myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Ralph Kettell was the kind of eccentric only Oxford can produce. Born in Hertfordshire in 1563, he was 15 when he ...
The familiar tick-tock of wall clocks originates from the escapement mechanism, which controls gear movement in precise steps. While our brains perceive two distinct sounds, clocks actually produce ...