What is it about mechanical clocks? Maybe it’s the gears, or the soft tick-tocking that they make? Or maybe it’s the pursuit of implausible mechanical perfection. Combine mechanical clocks ...

If you visit the Copenhagen City Hall, you’ll see an ornate mechanical clock ... inevitable that he would want to build a precise astronomically-correct clock.

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Clocks. Aren't they just great? Without them, the Industrial Revolution might never have happened. It was only when time could be split into pieces and rationed that we could be told what to do by ...

The biggest leap in car clock tech happened in the '30s and '40s, when electricity started to make mechanical clock winding obsolete. Quartz technology was another significant leap in timepiece ...

Drawing instruments like protractors, compasses, and rules are analog. So are pocket sundials, mechanical clocks and watches, and slide rules. In the nineteenth century, engineers, scientists, and ...

Dad used to put one hand on it and turn it easily. I thought he was Superman." "This old mechanical clock, the little brother of Big Ben, was an important part of this town," Ivor says.

Breguet is one of the most revered watchmakers of all time, and yet these watches remain undervalued relative to their peers.

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We're On Your Side making sure you know what to prepare in your hurricane kit ahead of Milton's impacts on the First Coast. The American Red Cross lists two types of hurricane kits: A Go-Kit and a ...

Two linguists took the time to explain the fascinating origin of o'clock. Read on to learn what the o in o’clock stands for and how the word evolved throughout history. The answer might surprise ...