The rear wall is dominated by the giant clock face, and the albatross-size cuckoo is suitably deep-voiced. Modern clock mechanisms are all brass and steel, materials adopted by Germany after ...

They were not terribly well made, whereas the ones from the 19th century are all different, they’re all hand carved, the mechanisms in some are superb and some are cuckoo and quail clocks ...

WAUKESHA, Wis. — Bill Galinsky has likely heard the call of the American cowbird more times than an ornithologist. The European cuckoo, too — Galinsky hears that bird all day, every day ...

We have seen twittering toasters, toilets and robots. Now an old-fashioned cuckoo clock gets a makeover so it can wirelessly connect to the internet and display status messages from Twitter.

Early records show that bird sounds have long been used to call out the time and the modern cuckoo clock, also a pendulum regulated device, came into its own in the middle of the 18th century.

"Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart" continues the recent string of European filmmakers producing small but interesting animated films for a fraction of the cost of a U.S. production.

Inventor Danny Hillis first imagined the concept in 1989. He envisioned a clock that ticks once a year, chimes every century, and the cuckoo comes out every millennium.

Cuckoo clocks not only have the usual internal clock mechanisms but are also controlled by weights and chains. Then there are the baffles for the cuckoo sound, ...

The mechanism of Edinburgh’s Floral Clock has been altered or replaced several times over the decades. The cuckoo was added in 1953, and the clock was converted to electricity in 1973.

For years now, claims that Amazon founder and billionaire Jeff Bezos is building a "10,000 Year Clock" that cost him $42 million have been posted to social media sites like Reddit and X (formerly ...

Setting time back in motion, moving us forward with mechanisms of the past. For Domotor, it's a little cuckoo. When asked about his favorite clock, he says, "It's probably going to be that cuckoo ...