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A Look at the Redesigned Cooper Hewitt

“Beautiful Users,” a temporary exhibition dedicated to the industrial designer Henry Dreyfuss, the man behind the Westclox Big Ben alarm clock and the Princess phone, included a tall screen meant to illustrate some of the ideas behind ergonomics. You ...

EXCHANGE: Inventor creates fishing line Untwister

In the 1960s and early 1970s, John “Ernie” Ernenputsch saw little pieces of metal that were being punched out of the backs of wall clocks at the Westclox factory. Wall said the white ones with bright blue feathers or hair seemed to be the best for ...

Days later, community still angry over Westclox blaze

Looking across the street, she saw a wall of flame: Westclox was on fire. Once the pride of this Illinois River town, the massive former clock and watch factory had stood mostly empty for 31 years, a brick and steel Goliath that stretched several city ...

Exploring Prague, Europe's free and easy capital

Once the home of Bohemian kings and Holy Roman Emperors, it's now the Czech Republic's White House. You could spend a full ... Crowds gather under the Astronomical Clock on the wall of the old City Hall to wait for the spectacle to unfold on the hour.

The Real Secret to Transforming Your Training

I’m running as fast as I can on a treadmill in a bright white room at the U.S. Olympic Training Center ... can prick my finger to extract a drop of blood. A long glass wall allows tourists and sports scientists a view of the sweaty human lab experiment ...

Bulova bringing Bluetooth-enabled clocks to High Point debut

From Bulova, Merrick is a curved mantel clock with a rubbed white case, contemporary dial and silent sweep seconds hand. Clock manufacturer Bulova will make its High Point Market debut this month with an array of Bluetooth-enabled accent clocks.

Tick tock: classic kitchen wall clock designs are influencing a slew of modern watchmakers

The Nomos Lux gently mirrors Bill's 1960s wall clock-with-timer. Sword hands sweep around a white dial surrounded by a choice of 1960s Formica colours - pale blue, canary yellow, claret or lilac-grey. The tonneau-shaped case meanwhile is reminiscent of ...

Square Wall Clock, White

Simplicity and minimalism characterize this square framed, medium-size wooden wall clock. This stark, contemporary design features a 12" white dial contrasted with black hands and sans-serif numberingperfect for viewing from across the room.

11" Aluminum Wall Clock Helio White

An understated dial design with 12 small numbers in black and hatch marks in gray. Brushed aluminum bezel with matching aluminum hands. Qualtiy silent quartz movement with sweeping second hand in orange. Requires one AA battery to oeprate.

The Short List: 'The Clock' Ticks at Lincoln Center

Christian Marclay's epic video installation "The Clock," which novelist Zadie Smith called "maybe ... The Ol' Razzle Dazzle,' Tuesday If you've taken even a cursory flip through the radio dial this summer, you've likely landed on "Somebody That I Used ...