For much of history, we lived happily without clocks, content with a vague understanding of where we were in the day. How, and when, did this change? Take a look.

Ryosuke Fukusada designed COO and MOOV, a series of metal cuckoo and pendulum clocks, respectively, crafted from perforated ...

For more than a century, one clock has been keeping time in the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador. Clockmaker Chris ...

At 13-3, the Seahawks continue to be the front-runner for the first seed in the NFC. The Panthers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers' ...

And grandfather clocks, prized by some, but they tend to scare children, for many kid’s cartoons and stories seem to feature ...

Simply sign up to the Technology myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Ralph Kettell was the kind of eccentric only Oxford can produce. Born in Hertfordshire in 1563, he was 15 when he ...

The familiar tick-tock of wall clocks originates from the escapement mechanism, which controls gear movement in precise steps. While our brains perceive two distinct sounds, clocks actually produce ...

THE interesting article by Mr. A. E. Bell on the “Horologium Oscillatorium” in NATURE of August 30 rather suggests that this was Huygens' first book on the pendulum clock. He published a description, ...

You have heard of Christiaan Huygens, haven’t you? A Dutch astronomer, inventor, physicist and mathematician, Huygens is often considered to be among the best scientific minds to have ever roamed the ...