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 ...

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, ...

Put a case around it and it would be a grandfather clock but for now it’s a pendulum clock made from ... been sped up to show the movement of the weights over time. One weight, made from dead ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...