Hackaday

Clock Mechanism Goes Crazy For Arduino

You’ve doubtless seen those ubiquitous clock modules, especially when setting clocks for daylight savings time. You know the ones: a single AA battery, a wheel to set the time, and two or three hands ...
The Harvard Crimson

In Photos: Inside Cambridge's Historic Tower Clock

More than 130 years after its installation atop the Cambridge City Hall, a mechanical tower clock — wound by hand each week — continues to chime. Crimson photographers followed David W. Graf, the ...
Quad-City Times

Davenport City Hall's 1800s-era clock tower rings again

Before this year, the stationary hands of City Hall's clock told the correct time just twice a day. Junk filled the rafters surrounding the clock tower mechanism and estimates to fix it for years ...
WSPA 7News on MSN

‘Opportunity to celebrate’: Spartanburg clock tower to be torn down, moved

SPARTANBURG, S.C. (WSPA) — Spartanburg City Council voted to tear down and move the clock tower during a meeting on Monday night. The clock tower was initially set to be moved later this year to make ...
WSPA

Spartanburg clock tower relocation vote delayed

SPARTANBURG, S.C. (WSPA) – As the construction deadline draws near, there’s more and more pressure on Spartanburg City Council to decide the future of Spartanburg’s iconic clock tower. The clock tower ...
wjactv

Renewed interest in restoring Millheim clock tower

In the heart of the Penns Valley region of Centre County is Millheim, and, practically in the heart of town, is the clock tower at the Calvary Penns Valley Church. Millheim Borough Council Member ...

Restored Big Ben tower up for architecture award

The refurbishment of Big Ben - officially known as the Elizabeth Tower - is among the six nominees for the Royal Institute of ...
The Gazette

Czech Village Clock Tower in Cedar Rapids preparing for its close-up

In late March, the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library in Cedar Rapids announced plans to renovate its flood- and derecho-damaged Clock Tower at the corner of Inspiration Place and 16th Avenue SW ...
The Gazette

Czech Village museum’s Clock Tower to add Prague-style astronomical clock features, figurines

Grant Smith, director of facilities for the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library, on Wednesday unlocks an opening in the Clock Tower in southwest Cedar Rapids. The tower will undergo rebuilding ...
The New York Times

The Tale of a Clock and the Family That Cares for It

In the Mexican city of San Miguel de Allende, the Vázquezes have maintained the town clock for four decades. A musician playing in front of the clock tower in the central square of San Miguel de ...
The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus

Davenport City Hall's 1800s-era clock tower rings again

Inside Davenport City Hall's clock tower is a 1895 Howard No. 0 Special Striker. Its clockwork turns the hands of the public-facing dial and rings a 1874 bell every hour for the first time in recent ...