In the past, with only analog technology, time and place required mechanical gearing. Below is a recreation of the Antikythera mechanism. The original Antikythera Mechanism was discovered in a ...
Back in the old days, we didn’t have fancy digital clocks. No, we had good analog clocks with a big hand and a little hand, and if you wanted to know the time you had to look at the clock and figure ...
The ticking and striking of clocks of all ages, sizes and shapes fill Phil D'Avanza's Goffstown workshop. His adjoining machine shop has a hum of its own as he mills, bevels and deburrs parts for much ...
Traditional mechanical clockmaking is an art that despite being almost the archetype of precision engineering skill, appears rarely in our world of hardware hackers. That’s because making a clock ...
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More than 130 years after its installation atop the Cambridge City Hall, a mechanical tower clock — wound by hand each week — continues to chime. Crimson photographers followed David W. Graf, the ...
Big Ben at the Palace of Westminster in central London on September 6th, 2021. BEN STANSALL/AFP via Getty Images Big Ben, the iconic clock tower that’s defined the London skyline for generations, has ...
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