A team of clock “doctors” is working to preserve some of the country’s oldest clocks before time runs out. Lindsay Rasberry and many people like him fell in love with clocks at an early age. He has ...
The alarm clock that once furnished your nightstand, helping you to get a better nights sleep, has gone kaput. While you may have had a love-hate relationship with this enduringly practical device, it ...
TO THEIR OWN HISTORY AS THE SEA OF CLOCKS COLLECTED HERE AT DELANEY. ANTIQUE CLOCKS IN WEST TOWNSEND STARTED IN ENGLAND. MY FATHER WAS TEACHING ON AN AIR FORCE BASE AND MY MOM WAS WITH THE RED CROSS.
Howdy, folks! Mike Rivkin with Antique Galleries of Palm Springs back again. In deference to this week's subject, let's not waste time. Today's topic is antique clocks. First, some background: While ...
Traditional timepieces offer ornate additions to any room with decorative finishes, hand-painted motifs and grand gilding. From a classic grandfather to a simple table style that could pass for an ...
Historic clock restoration specialist Chuck Roeser of Lockport, New York ducks under one of four clock mechanisms run by a E. Howard & Co. tower clock in the old, red Dallas County Courthouse, now ...
In 1714, Benjamin Franklin was only 8 years-old, it was still 62 years before the colonies would declare independence from Great Britain and Johann Sebastian Bach would’ve been 30 years-old and still ...
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 ...
Following is a transcript of the video. Devon Dey: Hi, I'm Devon. Today, I'm going to walk you through how I restore a 200-year-old grandfather clock. [clock chiming] Clocks that old weren't branded ...
Precision time is ubiquitous today thanks to GPS and WWVB. Even your Macbook or smartphone displays time which is synchronized to the NIST-F1 clock, a cesium fountain atomic clock (aka the ‘Atomic ...
PEORIA, Ill. (AP) - Cellphones didn’t exist in 1878, the year the giant Seth Thomas clock was installed in the Peoria County Courthouse. Long before the invention of the ubiquitous modern timepiece, ...
It’s Friday, which means I have to wind up the clock on the wall. It’s my wife’s clock. She brought it from Poland, where it had originally been her paternal grandmother’s who lived with them when my ...