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Every child knows the sequence of the days of the week, but few people really know why Monday comes after Sunday…

In 1848 Charles Dickens wrote of the railway: “There was even railway time observed in clocks, as if the sun itself...

Every child knows the sequence of the days of the week, but few people really know why Monday comes after Sunday…

“Ghastly weather“, railed the Admiral, Sir Clowdisley Shovell, glaring at the fog that...

Design of the Century from Furtwangen. The origins of the cuckoo clock are obscure. In 1619, a cuckoo clock ...

Many stories focus on the Nuremberg watchmaker Peter Henlein and his reputed invention, the pocket watch.

In 1869, Sigmund Riefler came up with the idea for a new kind of escapement for precision clocks. His idea…

At the end of the 19th century, the movements of the innovative “American-style clocks” were far different...

In Japan, the days were not broken down into 24 equally long hours; instead, day and night would be divided into six “toki”…