On June 16, 1657, Christiaan Huygens – a Dutch astronomer, inventor, physicist and mathematician – patented a pendulum clock for the first time. A.S.Ganesh takes a look at how Huygens turned ...

Witness the intricate build of a fully working LEGO pendulum clock designed for precision and durability. This project features an enhanced escapement mechanism paired with a smooth gear train ...

Upgrade your home or office décor with the Le’raze Grandfather Wall Clock, a retro-looking polyresin wall clock in antique brown and bronze colors that comes with a swinging pendulum. We ...

Seen among family portraits, is a French brass clock (left) by A.D. Mougin, dating back to around 1880, and a verge escapement torsion pendulum wall clock (right) made by Gustav Becker for Anton ...

Pendulum clocks are only accurate to about a second per day, as the rate at which a pendulum swings can vary with humidity, temperature, and the weight of extra dust.

From space, ACES will link to some of the most accurate clocks on Earth to create a synchronized clock network, which will support its main purpose: to perform tests of fundamental physics. But it ...

Duncan Clements of Pendulum of Mayfair antique clock specialists carries out the summertime adjustment of the clocks, regulators and timepieces in the display rooms on April 01, 2019 in London, U ...

My grandparents’ tiny house on Long Island was full of clocks. A grandfather clock stood stoically next to the seltzer cabinet, and a pendulum wall clock kept watch above the crystal candy jar ...

The clocks can range in price from $35 up to $1000 depending on how big and complicated they are. The Christkindlemarklet in Daley Plaza opens at 11 a.m. every day through Dec. 24.

We forget that before the U.S. Civil War, clocks were set to noon by where the sun appeared highest. If it were noon in Washington, D.C., the time in New York would have been 12:12 pm, because the ...

Although pendulum mechanisms had been used in clocks—a development often credited to Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens circa the mid-1600s—it wasn’t until William Clement began adorning ...