Bill Galinsky is nuts for cuckoo clocks
Bill Galinsky works on repairing a customer's German 1970 Hubert Herr cuckoo clock. Galinsky, a master cuckoo clock carver and maker, repairs about 200 cuckoo clocks each year. He estimates he makes another couple hundred clocks annually that he ...
The time lords
Cuckoo clocks will have complex gear trains to set birds dancing and bellows to produce the cuckoo sound. Nyenhuis has clocks with wooden gears, clocks with bells and music boxes, and clocks powered by atmospheric pressure in his shop. Many are more ...
I am… Thirunavakarishu Pillai, watch repair man
I learnt how to repair quartz watches from him,” explains Kannan. That came in handy when Kannan But if the customer is willing to bear the cost, I can repair almost any clock or watch, including cuckoo clocks,” he says with pride. Although Kannan ...
Dr George Daniels: 'Watchmaking god's' collection auctioned
Watchmaker Roger Smith, who moved to the Isle of Man in 1988 to work with Dr Daniels, said: "It is the equivalent of one man designing and making every single component of the greatest car the world has ever seen in his garage at home, right down to ...
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 ...
How to Turn a Frog Egg Into a Robot's Artificial Nose
That's because e-noses use quartz rods designed to vibrate at a different frequency when they bind to a target substance. But this is not a foolproof system, as subtly different substances with similar molecular weights may bind to the rod, producing a ...
Earth Raised up Its Magnetic Shield Early, Protecting Water and Emerging Life
In South Africa, study leader John Tarduno and his team found quartz with iron tucked inside that had remained unchanged in all those years. Using a specially designed magnetometer and improved lab techniques, the team detected a magnetic signal in ...