When you think of making something using a lathe, you usually think of turning a screw, a table leg, or a toothpick. [Uri Tuchman] had a different idea. He wanted to make a clock out of the gears used ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. There's nothing more rewarding than finding ways to reuse old or broken items in your home. If you have a clock with a cracked face or damaged ...

If there’s anything as American as baseball and apple pie, it’s gotta be the Kit-Kat clock in the kitchen. For the unfamiliar, the Kit-Kat clock is special in that its pendulum tail and eyes move back ...

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 ...

Imagine that it’s 1930, and you’re standing at Fourth Avenue and Pike Street in downtown Seattle. Now, spin around slowly. How many ornate, cast-iron street clocks can you see rising high above the ...