The clock on San Francisco's Ferry Building marks the hour, and the surrounding area at the base of Market Street is abuzz with noise. Traffic roars along the Embarcadero. Vendors chat with tourists.

[Stephen Hobley] has been experimenting with an electromagnetic pendulum in order to build himself a clock. Through the course of his experiments, he has learned quite a bit about how pendulums ...

However, the man really controlling time was nine stories up the Ferry Building clock tower in an 8-by-8-foot wooden booth. After the millions spent on the Ferry Building restoration, the power to ...

so [PuzzLEGO] set about building a working example with Lego. The rear view reveals the escapement built from Lego Technic parts. The core of the clock is the escapement, a linkage which the ...

He is inspired by the vision of Danny Hillis, who conceived the idea of the 10,000-Year Clock in 1995 as a way to foster long-term thinking and responsibility. Building a clock that will last for ...

At the time, George Graham, the period’s most prominent clockmaker, was building clocks that were accurate to a second per day. Harrison, who was trained as a carpenter, not a clockmaker ...

Building a mechanical clock is a long, involved endeavor but Chris, who runsthe YouTube channel Clickspring, offers a fantastic look into every step of the process. Starting all the way back in ...

The double-sided golden clock on the historic Penobscot building is now ticking again. The hands, which have been missing for weeks, reappeared last week. After a brief stint stalled on the ...

REDLANDS – Tim Rochford has a thing for clocks. Rochford, whose foundation owns the Burrage Mansion, owns several downtown historical buildings. As he renovated five of them, he added decorative ...