Here’s how to build a pendulum-controlled clock which can be made really accurate. Retro? – yes, but an interesting project all the same. You’ll need a spare quartz clock which must be adapted by ...

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For millennia, humanity's one-and-only reliable way to keep time was based on the Sun. Over the course of a year, the Sun, at any location on Earth, would follow a predictable pattern and path through ...

THE most accurate timekeepers of to - day are divided into two classes, depending on whether the restoring force of the oscillator is gravity, as in pendulum clocks, or elasticity, as in quartz ...