If you are a fan of LEGO bricks or Rube Goldberg, you should have a look at [Brick Technology’s] billion-year LEGO clock. Obviously, it hasn’t been tested for a billion years, and we wo… ...

Clocks are a favourite project here, and we can say we’ve seen all conceivable types over the years. Just a software clock on a retrocomputer perhaps isn’t the coolest among them, but [… ...

Witness the intricate build of a fully working LEGO pendulum clock designed for precision and durability. This project features an enhanced escapement mechanism paired with a smooth gear train ...

Clocks in Galileo’s era told time only to the nearest quarter hour and allowed only crude rate regulation. The pendulum-regulated clock, first conceived by Galileo and then realized by Christian ...

Free-pendulum clock. The designer, Reginald Le Normand Brabazon (1869-1949), didn't invent the free pendulum – that was invented about 40 years earlier by Belfast-born physicist William Thomson, ...

One old penny placed on top of the pendulum speeds up the clock by two fifths of a second over a 24-hour period. We like to keep the clock within two seconds of accuracy. At the moment, we’ve ...

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 ...