I have reinstated the alarm clock. An overlooked mechanism in today’s technologically-synced, your-phone-does-everything world, it tells the time, it wakes you up, it is decentralized from a phone. It ...

It might sound like a radical idea, but the same concept saved the National Basketball Association nearly 70 years ago. In both cases, the clock was added to accelerate a plodding game. Baseball games ...

For 80 years, this minimalist design with a distinctive red second hand has been a fixture in the country’s train stations. By Palko Karasz Reporting from Berlin In the 1940s, Hans Hilfiker, a ...