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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. “If it had been a good timepiece ...
Other fun pieces included a flying ball pendulum clock, also known as torsion clock, which has a small brass ball attached to a wire that spins around and is topped, for no apparent reason, with ...
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 ...
That big grandfather clock in the library might be an impressive piece of mechanical ingenuity, and an even better example of fine cabinetry, but we’d expect that the accuracy of a pendulum t… ...
We think this is the first pendulum-driven retrocomputer clock we’ve seen here at Hackaday, as you might understand when a clock has a pendulum it’s usually a more traditional design.
Logical reasoning suggests that late afternoon light helps keep us emotionally healthy; however, I also wonder why flying across a single time zone has no next-day effect on the body clock.
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 ...
Trying to solve the Hogwarts Legacy Clock Tower puzzle? There are four doors with symbols on them that keep slamming shut, so here's how to open them up.