Self Winding Clock Company, Grand Tower Clock, displayed at the Palace of Liberal Arts at the 1893 Columbian Exposition, image from Scientific American, July 29, 1893.

Put a case around it and it would be a grandfather clock but for now it’s a pendulum clock made from LEGO pieces. The video after the break shows a great overview of the build. You can see the ...

In the 17th century, Christiaan Huygens, inventor of the pendulum clock, noticed a curious phenomenon. When two identical pendulum clocks are mounted next to each other on a wall, their swings ...

Local News At South Station, a reminder of the past that keeps ticking through the present The clock atop the train terminal has been in place for more than 100 years and is still hand wound twice ...

The clock is from the Self Winding Clock Co. Nancy Dyer of the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors says there once were more than 50,000 Self Winding clocks across the country, all ...

The pendulum of a self-winding clock bears witness to the inexorable passage of time. But a turn of events offers a new interpretation of this situation.

The clock was crafted during the presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes. The pendulum was in motion before the Wright brothers achieved flight, before American women could vote, before the great stock ...

Inside, a pump captures energy from a pendulum that swings with the wheel’s rotation. Aperia likens it to a self-winding watch. The rotation produces the pumping action, which works at any speed.