[Stephen Hobley] has been experimenting with an electromagnetic pendulum in order to build himself a clock. Through the course of his experiments, he has learned quite a bit about how pendulums ...
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 "pendulums" which regulate them are the vibrating parts of atoms or molecules. So steady are these oscillations that atomic clocks keep better time than the spinning earth itself ...
Based in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Simonian had an idea that just wouldn’t go away: transpose a pendulum clock into a wristwatch ... with the various component parts hand-chamfered and gilded. The case is ...