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 ...

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 ...

Sinclair Harding, one of the greatest contemporary clockmakers in Britain, if not the world, has recreated a perfect ...

Biological timekeeping : the body's rhythms -- Calendar : different drummers -- Early clocks : home-made beats -- The pendulum clock : the beat of nature -- Successors : ubiquitous timekeeping -- ...