Keeping time and the instruments that keep our time have long held fascination for scientists and design enthusiasts. Since the early 17th century when Galileo Galilei discovered that pendulums could ...

Pendulum clocks, a big advance over the hourglasses and sundials humans once peered at, remained the most precise timekeeping technology until the early 1900s. Based on Galileo’s discovery that ...

Grandfather clocks, for hundreds of years, have proven themselves to be a wonderful piece of furniture that delivers elegance and charm to any room. These standalone, towering time-keepers are often ...

With the surge of digital design, those still creating beautiful pieces using analogue mechanisms are increasingly hidden from the limelight. Bill Denheld is one such designer. Initially creating ...

Projects can often spiral, not down or up, but out. For [Derek] he started playing around with a 3D printed escapement mechanism and thought it was a wonderful bit of engineering. But with a simple ...

Things that are distinctly Southern: seersucker, magnolias, sweet tea and tall clocks. According to clock expert Ralph Pokluda, a co-owner of Houston's Chappell Jordan Clock Galleries and a frequent ...

Stuck in the Dallas airport one afternoon, Jim Pearl started chatting up a downcast attorney who had missed a connecting flight. ”And what business are you in?” asked the uptight attorney.