Witness the intricate build of a fully working LEGO pendulum clock designed for precision and durability. This project features an enhanced escapement mechanism paired with a smooth gear train, ...

As the pendulum swings once per second, it lets the escapement gear turn one notch forward at a time, turning the gears of the clock which drive the hands. It’s powered with a falling weight in ...

[Stephen Hobley] has been experimenting with an electromagnetic pendulum in order ... need for chains and weights, which are typically associated with these sorts of clocks. His first experiments ...

A clock recently introduced in England has a peculiar ... with three adjustable weights, and which lengthen or shorten as they rise or fall. The mode of compensating is regulated by a screw ...

Unfortunately, the pace of the weight’s descent was irregular, and the clocks were wildly inaccurate.” Huygens studied the relation of the length of a pendulum to its period of oscillation and ...

Inside the pendulum shaft, a hollow brass sleeve ... The manual winding of the clock’s weights each week powers the gravity escape mechanism, which converts the gravitational force of the ...

Lab experiments suggest that a strange synchronization of pendulum clocks observed in the 1600s can be chalked up to acoustic energy Jesse Emspak Christiaan Huygens was a busy scholar. Among his ...

Graham keeps all of the clocks in the shop wound, pieces including pendulum devices, weight-driven cabinet clocks and spring-driven ones. "But I set them all a few minutes apart," she said with a ...

Christiaan Huygens was a busy scholar. Among his many achievements, the Dutch scientist figured out the shape of Saturn's rings and discovered that planet's largest moon, Titan. He founded the ...