The snooze feature was added to alarm clocks back in the 1950s. Early clock makers wanted the snooze time to last ten minutes, but those early mechanical clocks involved a lot of ...

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 ...

Some 19th-century clocks have fetched several thousand dollars at auction, highlighting a shift in how we value longevity and ...

The basic idea of the clock is that the numbers move on the clock, not the hands. So the clock should show 10:25 instead of moving hands to the 10 and the 5.

Early mechanical clocks showed all 24 hours, but over time, clockmakers found the 12-hour system simpler and cheaper. Of course, a.m. stands for ante meridiem, which is Latin for "before midday." ...

"A clock is a cross between a typewriter and an adding machine," he said, "back when they were machines." The Conrad native fixes, buys and sells old mechanical antique clocks. He builds clock parts.

Although we had never heard of it, this basic idea is really old. Clicking through Wikipedia (like you do!) got us to Cox’s Timepiece, which is powered by the movement of 68 kg of mecury under ...

Engineering-wise, it was frankly kind of overkill for something that was mostly an alarm clock. What makes the Rhei so great is it brings the ferromagnetic clock concept back to basics.

A giant mechanical clock which once stood in the centre of Newport is to be reassembled in a new location after spending five years in storage. Created in 1991, "In the Nick of Time" had a ...

A giant mechanical clock which once stood in the centre of Newport is to be reassembled in a new location after spending five years in storage. Created in 1991, "In the Nick of Time" had a ...