John Harrison, one of the world’s greatest clockmakers, claimed to have designed the perfect pendulum clock in the mid-18th century. Instead of being celebrated, Harrison’s plans were chastised and ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Aaron D. Crane (1804-1860) of ...
A pendulum clock designed 300 years ago has been certified as the world’s most accurate in its class by time-keeping experts from Guinness World Records. The pendulum clock design was created in the ...
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 ...
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