Build your own wooden mechanical timekeeping masterpiece
Posted by admin in Concept, Design on 24. Feb, 2010 | 0 Comments
Image Gallery For most of us clocks are a purely utilitarian device. They tell us the time and we don’t generally give a second thought to their inner workings. But the mechanical wooden clock designs of Clayton Boyer put the inner workings of clocks on full display resulting in conversation starters that are not only [...]
World’s most precise clock keeps time to 1 second in 3.7 billion years
Posted by admin in Electronics on 05. Feb, 2010 | 0 Comments
NIST postdoctoral researcher James Chin- wen Chou with the world’s most precise clock that probably won’t find its way into a wristwatch anytime soon Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built an enhanced version of an experimental atomic clock based on a single aluminum atom that would neither gain nor [...]
