Amazon announced its "Day 1" hardware program last year as a way to build unusual hardware products in limited quantities, get feedback from users and eventually make them more widely available. In ...

FARGO – What began 10 years ago as a small collection of 16 nonworking clocks has ballooned into a store filled with 350 timepieces - cuckoo and grandfather, antique and contemporary - all ticking and ...

A few weeks ago my treasured 40-year-old chiming grandfather clock stopped chiming, but continued to keep time. Alone at home, at age 86, I missed the sound. Global concerns were descending as a ...

STURBRIDGE — Sturbridge is seemingly synonymous with history, from its first settlers in 1644 to the opening in 1946 of Old Sturbridge Village, which welcomes visitors to experience life in a rural ...

Once hundreds of clocks are hung in a new exhibition space, “it’s going to be like stepping into the Black Forest.” By Sandra Jordan Reporting from Waterford, Ireland “How often do you get the chance ...

George cheers as the cuckoo emerges from the floral clock at Edinburgh's Princes Street Gardens. In 1995, teacher George Thomson took his P7 class more than 100 miles from their school in Aberdeen to ...

In 1995, teacher George Thomson took his P7 class more than 100 miles from their school in Aberdeen to see the wooden cuckoo at Edinburgh's famous floral clock. But much to his horror, when they got ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. The Piekarskis are the owners, proprietors, and restorers in residence of ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. Officially called the “NI-TELE Really BIG Clock,” four or five times a day this wacked ...