Unfortunately, those chimes are a bit of a disturbance to neighbors at 2 o’clock in the morning. Previously, [Vinnie] had been stopping the clock every evening, and hoped he would remember to ...

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 ...

"The clock actually tells time with a pendulum, and what you have to do--because this pendulum is so long, it's 15 feet and probably weighs a thousand pounds--is that you have to get it swinging ...

Big Ben is the name for the giant bell inside Elizabeth Tower. The chimes are slow by as many as six seconds. Mechanics are placing or removing pennies from the pendulum to alter its speed.

“There will always be something chiming.” “We just let them go,” his wife, Pauline, said. Oddball clocks. The weirdest clock Geraci has worked on is the Ignatz Flying Pendulum clock.

The chimes are based on the clock's 14ft pendulum. Its movement can be affected by factors such as temperature and barometric pressure. Image source, david rooney/science museum.

The clock chimes every hour but there’s an automatic shut-off at night so you’re not disturbed when you’re trying to sleep. Self-assembly is required. Buy now £339.99 , Wayfair ...

London's Queen Elizabeth Tower and its bell, Big Ben, will be silenced from noon on August 21 until 2021 as the iconic structure undergoes urgent repair work. The 160-year-old tower, which is a ...