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Oddball clocks. The weirdest clock Geraci has worked on is the Ignatz Flying Pendulum clock. The string-wound clock was notorious for being bad at keeping time.
I’ve got a mechanical movement clock that is accurate to a minute every two weeks. It’s better, or worse, depending upon the temperature, as the wooden pendulum stick moves.
The Timepiece Museum has about 120 clocks of all shapes and sizes on display, out of a total of about 800, ... Other fun pieces included a flying ball pendulum clock, ...
Christiaan Huygens knew clocks. The Dutch scientist, mathematician and inventor-of-all-trades is credited with inventing the pendulum clock and developing one of the first balance spring watches ...
Clocks are a favourite project here, and we can say we’ve seen all conceivable types over the years. Just a software clock on a retrocomputer perhaps isn’t the coolest among them, but [… ...
In the 17th century, Christiaan Huygens, inventor of the pendulum clock, noticed a curious phenomenon. When two identical pendulum clocks are mounted next to each other on a wall, their swings ...
Q: My husband and I purchased a beautiful Howard Miller pendulum wall clock in 1994. It worked well until a few months ago, when it began adding two chimes, one at five minutes before the hour and ...
The 350-year-old mystery of why pendulum clocks hanging from the same wall can influence each other and synchronize over time may hold even more secrets than previously thought, researchers say ...
Clocks in Galileo’s era told time only to the nearest quarter hour and allowed only crude rate regulation. The pendulum-regulated clock, first conceived by Galileo and then realized by Christian ...