At first glance, this looks like another cheap vintage oddity from the 1970s, but the movement tells a better story. Inside is a mechanical alarm system that works more like an old wind-up alarm clock ...

When the clock’s four faces drift out of sync, which visitors have frequently noticed, fixing them requires an electric ...

The famous cuckoo clock, with its moving, chirping mechanical bird indicating various divisions of time, has been around ...

Explore the mechanical genius of Big Ben, the iconic clock tower in London, England, which has been ticking for nearly 150 years. This animation takes you on a tour inside the clock tower, showcasing ...

An ingenious clock inspired by the lines of a 1960s grand prix car with movements for timekeeping and engine parts ...

A team in Germany has shown that mouse brain tissue can regain measurable signs of activity after being preserved in a ...

Simple on the outside, but more complex than they seem. These everyday devices are doing something clever every time you use ...

When Curran heard that Cuckooland – a Cheshire museum of cuckoo clocks run by two brothers – was closing, the intrepid duo ...

The British watchmaker just launched its first True GMT movement ...

From candles that drop metal pins every hour to the knocker uppers of industrial Britain, people throughout history devised plenty of cunning ways to ensure a timely wake-up. During Britain's ...

Over the past decades, quantum scientists have introduced various technologies that operate leveraging quantum mechanical effects, including quantum sensors, computers and memory devices. Most of ...

Maintaining a home a century ago required a level of physical labor that borders on unimaginable today. People spent nearly ...