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 ...

The familiar tones of the Westminster Chimes melody float across campus, followed by a short pause. At this time, Stanford students of the early 1900s would have pulled out their pocket watches, ready ...

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, ...

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 ...

Clocks have been made in forms that depend on the size and shape of the clock's mechanism. The 18th-century tall case, or grandfather, clock was made to hold a long pendulum. In 1816, Eli Terry ...

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 ...

MR. OVERTON has given us a most useful and interesting volume, describing the gradual evolution of timepieces from the early water clocks, through the balance clock, down to the modern pendulum clocks ...