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Traditional skills at risk of dying out, says craft group
Trug-makers Makers of traditional trug baskets at the Truggery near Hailsham, East Sussex. Photograph: Martin Godwin for the Guardian. Hannah Ellis-Petersen. Tuesday 30 December 2014 12.24 EST Last modified on Tuesday 30 December 2014 19.40 ...
How The Wall Came Tumbling Down: Made In Germany
Aside from cuckoo clocks, the Black Forest was at one time home to the largest watch factory in the world. In its heyday around 1903, Junghans – founded in 1861 and now most famous for bringing solar technology to the wrist – employed 3,000 people....
The time lords
This is extremely precise work that can take months, Nyenhuis says. “If I make one mistake, the clock will jam up.” Some mechanisms are too worn or cheap to repair, and must be replaced with modern quartz movements. “That's very sad for me,” Stricklin ...
Pa. clockmaker restores family heirlooms
Clocks serenade him as he works at his scarred bench, restoring and repairing wooden cases and intricate brass movements, at peace. Not everyone would hear the harmony of steady ticking punctuated by chimes and cuckoos, but the owner of Steiger ...
Say hello to the cuckoo
A number of busy people prefer buying the quartz cuckoo clocks which are also produced by the clock manufacturers but do not receive the VDS certificate because they do not have the traditional mechanical clockwork. An original Black Forest cuckoo ...
Time is running out for Canada's last watchmaking school
The last surviving watchmaking school in Canada is a cacophonous testament to the march of time. Cuckoo clocks trill. Grandfather clocks chime. Stout-faced wall clocks mark the passing seconds a tick at a time. It seems like a cruel irony, but this ...
3 Billion-Year-Old Sulfur-Eating Microbes May Be the Oldest Fossils Ever Found
What's the News: Geologists have found fossils of microorganisms from 3.4 billion years ago, which may be the oldest fossils ever uncovered. Since these microbes date from a time when Earth's atmosphere was still oxygen-free, astrobiologists could look ...
