The "Clock of the Long Now," which will tell time for the next 10,000 years, has cost $42 million to build so far. The huge mechanical clock ticks once per year and chimes once per millennium. Jeff ...

Pendulum clocks aren’t used quite as often these days as their cumbersome mechanics and timekeeping abilities have long been outshone by electronic alternatives. However, they’re still fun and they do ...

What if you could build a clock that would last for 10,000 years? A clock that would tick only once a year, bong once a century, and cuckoo once a millennium? A clock that would be a symbol of ...

Hackers like making clocks, and we like reporting on them around these parts. Particularly if they’ve got a creative mechanism that we haven’t seen before. This fine timepiece from [gooikerjh] fits ...

Nuclear clocks are the next big thing in ultra-precise timekeeping. Recent publications in the journal Nature propose a new method and new technology to build the clocks. Timekeeping has become more ...

The objective of the project is to create and display a working clock on the surface of a CRT tube in the form of oscilloscope. The design uses an old TRIO 20MHz oscilloscope to produce the image. A ...

Downtown Denver’s skyline, largely built in the ’70s and early ’80s, isn’t the most eye-popping bunch of buildings. But hidden among the massive cardboard boxes is a proud local landmark at 1601 ...