Ryosuke Fukusada designed COO and MOOV, a series of metal cuckoo and pendulum clocks, respectively, crafted from perforated ...

THE most accurate timekeepers of to - day are divided into two classes, depending on whether the restoring force of the oscillator is gravity, as in pendulum clocks, or elasticity, as in quartz ...

Keeping time and the instruments that keep our time have long held fascination for scientists and design enthusiasts. Since the early 17th century when Galileo Galilei discovered that pendulums could ...

MR. OVERTON has given us a most useful and interesting volume, describing the gradual evolution of timepieces from the early water clocks, through the balance clock, down to the modern pendulum clocks ...