Some of the best advice I’ve ever been given about visiting London is to look up. The architecture and artistry will always surprise you. A great example of this is…
Baselworld is the world watch and jewellery show held every year in Basel, Switzerland. It attracts around 100,000 visitors and is one of the most important events in the horological…
Yesterday morning a small crowd gathered in a conference room on the first floor of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. They were there to watch master watchmaker George…
To understand historical dating you need to understand calendar systems, and to understand those you need some basic astronomy. I find it a fascinating and pervasive subject that rewards you…
A few months ago I covered the Antikythera mechanism, the 2000 year old clockwork calendar and astronomical device found in the Mediteranean. In the video below former Science Museum curator…
The National Debt Clock in Manhattan hit $10 trillion earlier this week causing a “rollover” problem. This is when the data model (or in this case display) is no longer…
The Corpus Clock is a very unusual timepiece. It has no hands or numbers on it’s dial; merely a series of apertures through which light is being cycled. The horologiboffins…
This project is full of challenges. Not so much the programming. I’ve been working with Flash for close on 10 years – it’s all the other stuff. The required knowledge…
Fragment A of the Antikythera mechanism The detailed report reveals the device was capable of tracking lunar and solar cycles, eclipse cycles and the four-year cycle of the Olympiad and…