The 350-year-old mystery of why pendulum clocks hanging from the same wall can influence each other and synchronize over time may hold even more secrets than previously thought, researchers say ...

The 350-year-old mystery of why pendulum clocks hanging from the same wall synchronize over time may finally be solved, scientists say. In 1665, Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens, inventor of the ...

Each time that energy pulse travels, it tends to push one clock's pendulum in time with the other. The experiment takes up to 18 hours or even days to run, because the clocks synchronize slowly.

Forty-seven years ago I bought an antique regulator clock. I liked its mechanics working off a pendulum, wound with a key pressed and turned in its belly.

Indeed, the device to within a second over 100 days, and it now holds the record as the "most accurate mechanical clock with a pendulum swinging in free air." Silencing the haters always feels ...

Q: My husband and I purchased a beautiful Howard Miller pendulum wall clock in 1994. It worked well until a few months ago, when it began adding two chimes, one at five minutes before the hour and ...

A visit to Robert Kennedy's home sends visitors back in time. In a period spanning 35 years, this Chennai resident has collected around 2,500 antique pendulum clocks, pocket watches and alarm ...

Being essentially outdoors at the old Peoria County Courthouse, the clock needed the 500-pound pendulum bob to keep running in all kinds of weather. Since it would be indoors at the Peoria ...

It takes its time reference from a real pendulum, on an antique wall clock. ... My “free pendulum clock” uses a digital PLL to create the drive for the analog clock movement.

The 350-year-old mystery of why pendulum clocks hanging from the same wall can influence each other and synchronize over time may hold even more secrets than previously thought, researchers say. In ...

Each time that energy pulse travels, it tends to push one clock's pendulum in time with the other. The experiment takes up to 18 hours or even days to run, because the clocks synchronize slowly.