Hackaday

Unique Clock Is All Hands, No Dial, And Does The Worm

Back in the old days, we didn’t have fancy digital clocks. No, we had good analog clocks with a big hand and a little hand, and if you wanted to know the time you had to look at the clock and figure ...
The Hoya

Clock Hands Tradition Rekindled

More than two weeks after the clock hands on the front face of Healy Tower went missing, the mystery of who took them remains largely unsolved. After confirming the theft of the front hands, which ...
Observer

Big Ben’s Restoration Has Revealed That the Clock’s Hands Are Blue

Big Ben at the Palace of Westminster in central London on September 6th, 2021. BEN STANSALL/AFP via Getty Images Big Ben, the iconic clock tower that’s defined the London skyline for generations, has ...
The Hoya

Tradition Returns With Theft of Healy Clock Hands

In the latest iteration of a long-running tradition, the clock hands of Healy Tower went missing in the early hours of this morning, as the final examination period dawned. The university has ...
Popular Science

Why do clock hands seem to slow down?

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The Boston Globe

The hands are gone from the Custom House Tower’s clock, a fitting symbol for these strange times

The pandemic has warped our sense of time, at once blurring the days together and slowing them to a weary slog. So it’s fitting that Boston’s most recognizable clock has come to a standstill — for now ...
Hackaday

Robot Arms Nudge The Hands Of Time In The Strangest Clock

We see a lot of clocks here at Hackaday. Digital clocks, retro clocks, lots of Nixie clocks, binary clocks, and clocks that appear to be designed specifically to be unreadable. But this dual-servo ...