While recovering from an illness in 1665, Dutch astronomer and physicist Christiaan Huygens noticed something very odd. Two of the large pendulum clocks in his room were beating in unison, and ...

The 18th-century horologist John Harrison claimed that he could make the world's most accurate pendulum clock, but his methods were scorned for hundreds of years—until someone proved him right.

Early records show that bird sounds have long been used to call out the time and the modern cuckoo clock, also a pendulum regulated device, came into its own in the middle of the 18th century.

News Published: 23 July 1932 Modern Developments in Precision Clocks Nature 130, 124 (1932) Cite this article ...

As time went on, clockmaking technology continued to evolve, with innovations like the pendulum clock, which greatly improved accuracy .We also dive into the development of quartz clocks, which ...

In the 17th century, Christiaan Huygens, inventor of the pendulum clock, noticed a curious phenomenon. When two identical pendulum clocks are mounted next to each other on a wall, their swings ...

Q: My husband and I purchased a beautiful Howard Miller pendulum wall clock in 1994. It worked well until a few months ago, when it began adding two chimes, one at five minutes before the hour and ...