Previously, [Vinnie] had been stopping the clock every evening, and hoped he would remember to start the pendulum in motion 12 hours later. This was a chore, so he decided to automate the process.

That big grandfather clock in the library might be an impressive piece of mechanical ingenuity, and an even better example of fine cabinetry, but we’d expect that the accuracy of a pendulum ...

The grandiose addition to the library was made possible by a $400,000 donation by Lucille Caudill Little, and was unveiled on ...

One that still manages to make an impression is the grandfather clock, a vertically imposing timekeeper that feels more like ...

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 ...

A watch differs from a clock In its having a vibrating wheel instead of a vibrating pendulum ; and, as in a clock, gravity is always pulling the pendulum down to the bottom of its arc, which is ...