Keeping time and the instruments that keep our time have long held fascination for scientists and design enthusiasts. Since the early 17th century when Galileo Galilei discovered that pendulums could ...

Hate watching time tick away on plasticky digital clocks? The furniture company BDDW may have just the fix: the Nixie desk clock, a hand-welded bronze behemoth of a time-teller, fitted with numerical ...

As smartphones take over the world, alarm clocks are fading into the well-rested past. We now wake up to ringtones rather than the clatter of a metal hammer; we search for the hard-to-find ...

My next book, due out in late January, is called A Brief History of Timekeeping, and covers at least 5,000 years of the science and technology humans have used to track the time. When I cite that ...

Projects can often spiral, not down or up, but out. For [Derek] he started playing around with a 3D printed escapement mechanism and thought it was a wonderful bit of engineering. But with a simple ...

The familiar tick-tock of wall clocks originates from the escapement mechanism, which controls gear movement in precise steps ...

For those who don’t enjoy being jolted awake by the ringing, beeping, or buzzing of a traditional alarm clock, a clock radio provides a more appealing option: music. Some modern clock radios also have ...