IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This unit is all that remains of a ...

If you’re looking for a 1-second time reference, you’d probably just grab a GPS module off the shelf and use the 1PPS output. As demonstrated by [InazumaDenki], though, an old quartz clock module can ...

It has been a while since our last installment of the Car Clock of the Week series, so let's go back 38 years to a time when the Mercury brand still existed and most Mercuries had cool-looking clocks ...

Given the crossover between people who like classic cars and those who like other complicated devices in general—and vintage wristwatches specifically—it’s a little surprising that the car clock often ...

The quartz clocks which have dominated time-keeping for the past 20 years or so have one problem: their errors, although slight, are cumulative. The quartz clocks which have dominated time-keeping for ...

Hi. I have been a longtime subscriber and I am interested in asking a question to your Technically Speaking staff. I have a 1967 Corvette and the clock will only work when I tap the face of the clock.

Q: Who invented the quartz watch, which is so common now? And why have cheaper models not diminished the sales of such premium watches as Rolex and Omega, which are no more accurate and harder to ...

Phillips is bringing a 1926 Cartier “mystery clock” to auction next week in New York, less than a month after the US$1.92 million sale of a 1920s-era Cartier La Pendule Magnétique “water clock” from ...