According to the statistics provided by the World Economic Forum, nowadays China can boast its position as the world’s second largest spender on scientific research and development, yielding only to ...

Checking the time hasn’t always been as easy as glancing at your smartphone. In ancient times, humans would determine the time by using devices made of sand, stone, shadows, wheels, and more. One ...

Dave Welch makes a living out of time, yet he doesn’t wear a watch. “Don’t need one,” he said, swiveling his chair to better survey the vast array of clocks in his Vergennes domain — big ones, small ...

When your furnace stops working at 2 a.m. on a January night in Mason City, or your commercial air conditioning system fails during a sweltering summer afternoon, you need more than just another ...

A sophisticated Arduino-based mechanical clock system featuring a stepper motor-driven clock mechanism with real-time clock synchronization, WiFi connectivity, and smart LCD display management.

This week’s selection is the Mechanical Digital Clock by Printables contributor Marian42. This design is a fully functional, 24 hour, digital clock. It uses the familiar seven segment display format, ...

Editor's note: The clock will not be at the new location, it has been sold. The story has been updated with more details from the owner. The iconic clock outside the old Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical ...

My grandparents’ tiny house on Long Island was full of clocks. A grandfather clock stood stoically next to the seltzer cabinet, and a pendulum wall clock kept watch above the crystal candy jar in the ...

Timekeeping has always been fundamental to human civilization. From ancient sundials to mechanical clocks and modern atomic optical timekeepers, each innovation has brought greater precision. Now, a ...

The New Yorker did a feature on Marvin Schneider, 85, the city’s municipal clock master, and Forest Markowitz, 74, his apprentice, and their weekly visits to and history with the Clock Tower Building ...

LOWER MANHATTAN (WABC) -- The concept of time is one 85-year-old Marvin Schneider has no problem considering. "I know time is precious and it's not inexhaustible but I try to have as good of a time as ...