It's a Wednesday evening in a town hall in Penryn in Cornwall, and my friend Pete and I are volunteering at our local repair ...

At the Houston Museum of Natural Science they recently made a disturbing discovery: their Foucault pendulum had stopped ...

What started as a hobby became a full-blown business for Harold MacVittie more than a decade ago. His Chapin clock shop is still ticking.

The pendulum at the museum is attached to a 61-foot-long cable. It typically swings as the Earth rotates, knocking down pegs, until it suddenly stopped this month. The Houston Museum of Natural ...

Simply sign up to the Technology myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Ralph Kettell was the kind of eccentric only Oxford can produce. Born in Hertfordshire in 1563, he was 15 when he ...

The familiar tick-tock of wall clocks originates from the escapement mechanism, which controls gear movement in precise steps. While our brains perceive two distinct sounds, clocks actually produce ...

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio — A Cleveland Heights man accused of scamming more than a dozen customers through his clock repair business appeared in court on Monday. Michael Daniel owned and operated ...

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio — A Cleveland Heights man accused of scamming more than a dozen customers through his clock repair business has been indicted, according to Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael C ...

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio (WJW) — A 37-year-old man is accused of stealing thousands of dollars from people who believed they were paying to have their clocks repaired, the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The owner of a Cleveland Heights clock-repair business faces felony grand theft charges after authorities say he scammed 15 customers out of approximately $26,000. At least one ...

When daylight saving time ends on Sunday, and mornings are gradually growing darker. Whether you’re after a gentle sunrise glow or a good old-fashioned buzzer that could wake the neighbors, we’ve ...