A neatly designed electromechanical clock shared on YouTube is drawing interest from hobbyists and electronics enthusiasts alike. The project is inspired by the marble clock concept originally created ...

Clocks come in many styles and sizes, with perhaps the most visually pleasing ones involving marbles. Watching these little spheres obey gravity and form clearly readable numbers on a clock has ...

Just as you update your wardrobe for the new season, you’re probably feeling the itch to refresh your living space as well. But buying a new dress is way different than buying a new sofa. Fortunately, ...

The astonishing variety of ways to tell the time which have appeared on these pages over the years provides a showcase of the talents and ingenuity of our community. Many clocks use designs we are ...

Pendulum clocks, a big advance over the hourglasses and sundials humans once peered at, remained the most precise timekeeping technology until the early 1900s. Based on Galileo’s discovery that ...

I remember seeing my first marble clock in a shop window in Geneva when I was very young and being mesmerised by the balls rolling every minute to indicate the passing of time. It was sometime later I ...