While better known in Europe than America, the Swiss firm made fancy clocks and watches for the likes of J.P. Morgan and the ...

The Doomsday Clock depicts how close humanity is to armageddon – but where did it come from, how do you read its time, and what can we learn from it? Existential risk researcher SJ Beard explains.

through the balance clock, down to the modern pendulum clocks and chronometers. There are many illustrations, and the various methods of compensating for temperature are described in plain non ...

In his book The Mathematical Universe, mathematician William Dunham wrote of John Venn’s namesake legacy, the Venn diagram, “No one in the long history of mathematics ever became better known ...

We’ve been seeing a lot of metaclocks lately — a digital clock whose display is formed ... it’s not always possible to gather the parts one needs for a full-scale build.