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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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, ...

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.

My 25-year-old cuckoo clock hung on the dining room wall silent for over two years. Finally, this month, I decided to see if I could repair the clock to produce the comforting, hourly cuckoo whistle ...