Comtoise watches, as seen here in the Comtoise Museum of master watchmaker Bernd Deckert, are a French pendulum clock from the French region of Franch-Comte. While they are beautiful antiques, they ...

A new project has been published to the Hackster.io website this week from Jeremy Cook, who has created a unique single nixie pendulum POV clock powered by an Arduino Nano microcontroller together ...

Talk about your mixed timekeeping metaphors: there are clocks, and pendulum clocks, and there are Nixie clocks, and persistence of vision clocks. But this is a Nixie pendulum POV clock, and we think ...

The long, slow chime of the grandfather clock may finally be fading out. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, John J. Miller notes that Howard Miller Company, the Michigan manufacturer that helped put tall ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Aaron D. Crane (1804-1860) of ...

The study shows that in quantum devices, reading a clock consumes far more energy than running it. This insight will help ...

Physicists at the Ural Federal University (UrFU) have created a theory for the solidification of iron-nickel (Fe-Ni) alloy (invar). They determined that an important role in the technology of creating ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about physics, science, academia, and pop culture. To unpack these a bit, Karl Popper was the philosopher of science who I ...