The alarm clock that once furnished your nightstand, helping you to get a better nights sleep, has gone kaput. While you may have had a love-hate relationship with this enduringly practical device, it ...
A team of clock “doctors” is working to preserve some of the country’s oldest clocks before time runs out. Lindsay Rasberry and many people like him fell in love with clocks at an early age. He has ...
Some 19th-century clocks have fetched several thousand dollars at auction, highlighting a shift in how we value longevity and craftsmanship. That old clock on your shelf might be worth more than your ...
I still repair antique clocks. I regret to say that I’ve been fixing most of these clocks for several years, for they were brought in during the two years that I was sick, perhaps with “Long Covid®” ...
If a ticking clock is the heartbeat of a home, a little arrhythmia is not uncommon. Old clocks can be fussy, especially when moved from their longstanding positions or relocated to a different type of ...
Precision time is ubiquitous today thanks to GPS and WWVB. Even your Macbook or smartphone displays time which is synchronized to the NIST-F1 clock, a cesium fountain atomic clock (aka the ‘Atomic ...
TO THEIR OWN HISTORY AS THE SEA OF CLOCKS COLLECTED HERE AT DELANEY. ANTIQUE CLOCKS IN WEST TOWNSEND STARTED IN ENGLAND. MY FATHER WAS TEACHING ON AN AIR FORCE BASE AND MY MOM WAS WITH THE RED CROSS.
It’s Friday, which means I have to wind up the clock on the wall. It’s my wife’s clock. She brought it from Poland, where it had originally been her paternal grandmother’s who lived with them when my ...
For antique clock owners, this weekend's end of daylight-saving time poses unique problems. Turning back the clock counterclockwise can damage an old clock's intricate mechanism. However, there are ...
My scale and my alarm clock are in cahoots. It started when both our old scale and clock suddenly died. They’d had good, long electronic lives but finally ...