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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.
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, ...
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 ...
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.
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 [… ...
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 ...
Blacksmith artist Max Randolph designs and builds a functional 6 foot clock tower built with hand-cut gear works, with blue stained glass embellishments on the pendulum. This piece is now a public ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...