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 ...

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 ...

Hate watching time tick away on plasticky digital clocks? The furniture company BDDW may have just the fix: the Nixie desk clock, a hand-welded bronze behemoth of a time-teller, fitted with numerical ...

My next book, due out in late January, is called A Brief History of Timekeeping, and covers at least 5,000 years of the science and technology humans have used to track the time. When I cite that ...

Longtime photographer and filmmaker Don Hamilton has refurbished and rebuilt some of the classic midcentury modern Jefferson Golden Hour clocks he has collected in his tiny home workshop in Spokane.

“Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, ...

[Reboots] is a humble hacker who enjoys nixie tubes. So when he saw an old General Electric battery charger for sale at a hamfest, he thought: “that case would make a nice clock…” He was first exposed ...