Traditional mechanical clockmaking is an art that despite being almost the archetype of precision engineering skill, appears rarely in our world of hardware hackers. That’s because making a clock ...
If a ticking clock is the heartbeat of a home, a little arrhythmia is not uncommon. Old clocks can be fussy, especially when moved from their longstanding positions or relocated to a different type of ...
Contentedly ticking away in a specially built shed in Nannup, Western Australia is possibly the largest working wooden tower clocks in the world. Built predominantly of jarrah by local Kevin Bird, the ...
“You feel like the void itself is breathing, and that you’re a part of it.” 31-year-old Rick Hale is comparing the sensation of wind in a forest to that of finishing one of his creations and sitting ...
Specialist technical abseil team cleaning and inspecting one of the four faces of the Great Clock, otherwise known as Big Ben, at the Houses of Parliament in London (Picture:PA) This weekend many of ...