The alarm clock that once furnished your nightstand, helping you to get a better nights sleep, has gone kaput. While you may have had a love-hate relationship with this enduringly practical device, it ...
A team of clock “doctors” is working to preserve some of the country’s oldest clocks before time runs out. Lindsay Rasberry and many people like him fell in love with clocks at an early age. He has ...
Some 19th-century clocks have fetched several thousand dollars at auction, highlighting a shift in how we value longevity and craftsmanship. That old clock on your shelf might be worth more than your ...
I still repair antique clocks. I regret to say that I’ve been fixing most of these clocks for several years, for they were brought in during the two years that I was sick, perhaps with “Long Covid®” ...
If a ticking clock is the heartbeat of a home, a little arrhythmia is not uncommon. Old clocks can be fussy, especially when moved from their longstanding positions or relocated to a different type of ...
TO THEIR OWN HISTORY AS THE SEA OF CLOCKS COLLECTED HERE AT DELANEY. ANTIQUE CLOCKS IN WEST TOWNSEND STARTED IN ENGLAND. MY FATHER WAS TEACHING ON AN AIR FORCE BASE AND MY MOM WAS WITH THE RED CROSS.
Precision time is ubiquitous today thanks to GPS and WWVB. Even your Macbook or smartphone displays time which is synchronized to the NIST-F1 clock, a cesium fountain atomic clock (aka the ‘Atomic ...
At Pennsylvania's Capitol building, clocks that are more than a century old still help lawmakers tell the time. There are 273 vintage clocks inside the Capitol, that are all working. They've become ...
My grandparents’ tiny house on Long Island was full of clocks. A grandfather clock stood stoically next to the seltzer cabinet, and a pendulum wall clock kept watch above the crystal candy jar in the ...
It’s Friday, which means I have to wind up the clock on the wall. It’s my wife’s clock. She brought it from Poland, where it had originally been her paternal grandmother’s who lived with them when my ...