There are few things to which we pay as much attention as the passage of time. We don’t want to be late for work, or a date. Even more importantly, we don’t want to age and die. Good time keeping is ...

Among all the timepieces that we feature here at Hackaday, surprisingly we bring you relatively few clocks. That might seem an incomprehensible statement given the plethora of, well, clocks, that ...

Some collectors prefer the aesthetics and design of a beautiful timepiece that you can set on a table — “a mechanical sculpture,” as one put it. Share full article The Arachnophobia clock, from a ...

The familiar tones of the Westminster Chimes melody float across campus, followed by a short pause. At this time, Stanford students of the early 1900s would have pulled out their pocket watches, ready ...

The world's oldest working mechanical clock is to be fitted with an electric motor for the first time after being wound by hand every week for more than 600 years. By Andrew Hough 20 August 2010 • ...

The Newport Clock was an artwork that opened, paraded model figures and blew steam on the hour at its location in John Frost Square A giant mechanical clock which once stood in the centre of Newport ...

Living organisms possess an internal biological cycle known as the circadian clock, enabling them to adapt to environmental changes arising from the Earth’s rotation. This internal clock regulates ...

In the Mexican city of San Miguel de Allende, the Vázquezes have maintained the town clock for four decades. A musician playing in front of the clock tower in the central square of San Miguel de ...