Contentedly ticking away in a specially built shed in Nannup, Western Australia is possibly the largest working wooden tower clocks in the world. Built predominantly of jarrah by local Kevin Bird, the ...

Christiaan Huygens was a busy scholar. Among his many achievements, the Dutch scientist figured out the shape of Saturn's rings and discovered that planet's largest moon, Titan. He founded the theory ...

Would you believe a pendulum clock that can keep time accurately to within one second per year? If you answered “yes”, you’ve either never tried to regulate a pendulum clock yourself, or you already ...

Mystery clocks have been popular since the 18th century. The clock seems to have no mechanism but keeps time. One of the most famous is the swinging-arm clock. A tall classical figure, usually bronze, ...

A history of time Clocks are one of the oldest human inventions. Although the origins of the mechanical clock are not known, church records and early references to mechanical clocks indicate that such ...

More than 130 years after its installation atop the Cambridge City Hall, a mechanical tower clock — wound by hand each week — continues to chime. Crimson photographers followed David W. Graf, the ...

The classic design of a mechanical clock generally consists of a display, a way to store energy, a way to release that energy at regular intervals, and a mechanism to transmit it where it needs to ...

The final masterpiece of the world's greatest clockmaker is to be put through its paces at last, 230 years after it was finished, to see if it fulfils its maker's specifications. The priceless Late ...