Stick around to see a quick video demonstration of the clock with all of its gearing in action. ... 9 thoughts on “ Building An Electromagnetic Pendulum Clock ” Tony says: ...

Nice – I built a pendulum clock from LEGO over 30 years ago – using the older, chunkier 70s gearing, which made an escapement quite easy :) Report comment. Reply. Foldi-One says: ...

Oil painting by Hugh Chevins, 1955, showing Huygens and Coster with their first pendulum clock. ... Sundials, no more sophisticated than a vertical stick hammered into the ground, ...

The pendulum clock, arguably, was the first experimental indication we had that gravity is not uniform over the surface of the Earth. Even before the advances of Isaac Newton, ...

Clocks in Galileo’s era told time only to the nearest quarter hour and allowed only crude rate regulation. The pendulum-regulated clock, first conceived by Galileo and then realized by Christian ...