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Book Review: Longitude by Dava Sobel

September 25, 2016September 25, 2016 shetalksaboutclocks

“Any alert schoolchild nowadays knows that cancer cries for a cure,” writes Dava Sobel, author of Longitude, the eye-opening and turbulent history of the search for a solution to tracking sea travel. Sobel argues that the race for a solution to … Continue reading Book Review: Longitude by Dava Sobel

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My Grandfather’s (or Grandmother’s) Clock

September 4, 2016September 5, 2016 shetalksaboutclocks

It may have predated Top 40, but it was still a hit. In 1876 Henry Clay Work would have topped any chart (if they existed) with “My Grandfather’s Clock“, a moving song about a clock that ticks faithfully until the … Continue reading My Grandfather’s (or Grandmother’s) Clock

I’m sorry that I accidentally cleaned your barometer… November 29, 2017
Oh, science - why have one unit of measurement when you can have four?
Cogsworth the Clock March 27, 2017
Last week (March 17, 2017) Disney premiered their long anticipated live action remake of the 1991 Beauty and the Beast classic animated movie. There was the expected hype about the music, their outfits, the possibility of a gay character, etc, …
Sometimes I’m not as good at things as I think I’m going to be February 19, 2017
There’s a game called Scattegories that some of you may have played before. Each round, someone rolls a 26-sided die. The roll determines what letter is chosen, and then each person gets a few minutes to answer as many questions …
Making vs Buying, and more about Lori’s Clock January 30, 2017
I had someone online tell me a few months ago that we (Americans? People with money? Conceited jerks?) don’t need to know how to make things anymore because we can just buy them new. Ahem… unfriended! Think of a parent …
Lori’s Clock: Part 2 January 20, 2017
Checklist: One clock case One clock movement (85 years old, missing pieces) Two 12V DC 60 RPM motors Two circuits for adjusting motor speed 8 or 9 types of battery packs, each rated around 12V with various current ratings And …
Year In Review: In Pictures December 31, 2016
As I like to say, don’t despair for clocks in disrepair. It’s the tagline for this blog and also an accurate summary of this past year. I don’t want to get political, but let’s just say I’ve been less than …
Date Night: Devon the Electric Sessions Clock December 11, 2016
When I’m not doing homework or taking apart clocks or sleeping or working on an iPhone app (that one’s new!) I can almost always be found at my home away from home, The Able Baker, where I am a barista …
Clarence the Cantankerous Clock November 22, 2016
As most of you know, my clocks mainly come from eBay filed under “For Parts or Repair” and that’s the way I like them. I’m still firmly in the learning stage and while I can do minor work on quality clocks I generally stick to toss away clocks that no one cares for but myself. So I was hyped to find a great deal on two ceramic clocks that have just the kind […]
Beau the Morbier November 21, 2016
Oh, Beau. A suave, handsome name for a suave, handsome clock. First, a picture of the beauty. The writing on the clock reads “Perry Hger” above and “a Monflanquin” below. First off, a history of Morbier (or Comtoise) clocks. They were made in villages in France (Morbier being the name of one such village and Comte a region in which the clocks were commonly m […]
The CHS Tower Clock: How it Works November 11, 2016
Or rather, “The CHS Tower Clock: How it Would Work, if it, you know, Worked” I found myself sinking into familiar thoughts as I recently rewound the clocks in my house back an hour. Namely, “Why Batteries?!” Battery powered clocks, …

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