gear pendulum wall clocks

Jimmy Hayes keeps ticking as he collects, fixes clocks

He's proud, too, of the clocks he built with wooden gears, using fruit woods, especially applewood. But his interest For fun, he built a "barber clock" with backward numbers so the patron in a barber's chair looking in a mirror can properly read ...

THE HARD WAY: I am so not a clock maker

The staining looked great, the numbers on the clock face lined up perfectly and the gears all fit together perfectly. The thing was a work of art. The problem was it didn't work. When I hung the clock on the wall and attached the pendulum, it did nothing....

Ashland resident donates clock to historical society

That piece of history is the wooden case of a Waterbury Clock Co. regulator (pendulum) wall clock that hung on the wall in the P.L. Loeper Jewelry Store at 935 Centre St. The clock mechanism is long gone, but the case is about 36 inches tall and 15 ...

Clock maker winding down

The basic mechanical clock mechanism involves a power source (spring or gravity-driven weight), gears, an escapement (to create accuracy), a pendulum and a display. During the last two centuries, clockmakers added complications that could track and ...

Redskins-Eagles: 9 takeaways from Washington's 27-24 win

The 2014 Eagles season is a nice reminder how quickly the NFL pendulum can swing. Walking off the field on Thanksgiving The Redskins predictably ran the ball three times, melted the clock and kicked a field goal. Philly got one more attempt at a ...

Roger A. Gibboni, 82, engineer

In addition to being a scientist, their father was a master woodworker who designed and created furniture, wall-hanging pendulum clocks, household items, and his signature bird feeders for family and friends. "They were all different - natural wood ...

Bringing Music Back Home

And while in recent decades, the emphasis in sound technology has all been on the personal and the portable, on evermore capacious iPods and headphones designed for music on the move, at last the pendulum is swinging back toward music as an If you ...