Using this design, you can construct an electromagnetically impulsed pendulum clock with a 1-second beat. On the prototype, the pendulum rod is 115cm long with a bob adjusted to make it beat every ...

Pendulum clocks, a big advance over the hourglasses and sundials humans once peered at, remained the most precise timekeeping technology until the early 1900s. Based on Galileo’s discovery that ...

An eerie link between two 17th-century clocks has finally been explained, say scientists who have retraced the work of Dutch genius Christiaan Huygens. Huygens invented the pendulum clock in 1657, in ...