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The history of timekeeping before clocks became common

Today, most people can check the time with a glance at a phone, watch, or computer screen. Precise timekeeping has become so routine that it's easy to forget how difficult it once was to measure the ...
The New York Times

An Irish Clock Museum Welcomes the Cuckoo

Once hundreds of clocks are hung in a new exhibition space, “it’s going to be like stepping into the Black Forest.” By Sandra Jordan Reporting from Waterford, Ireland “How often do you get the chance ...
insider.si.edu

Marking modern times : a history of clocks, watches, and other timekeepers in American life / Alexis McCrossen

Unveiling the jewelers' clock -- Time's tongue and hands: the first public clocks in the United States -- Clockwatching: the uneasy authority of clocks and watches in antebellum America -- Republican ...
The New York Times

This Japanese Museum Actually Keeps Time

The Timepiece Museum has about 120 clocks of all shapes and sizes on display, out of a total of about 800, with the oldest dating from the 1400s. Share full article A display at the Timepiece Museum ...
Phys.org

Redefining the second: Optical atomic clock achieves record accuracy in comparison measurement

The next generation of atomic clocks "ticks" with the frequency of a laser. This is about 100,000 times faster than the microwave frequencies of the cesium clocks which are generating the second at ...