English clockmaker John Harrison revolutionized long distance seafaring in the 18th century, solving the problem of calculating longitude at sea and devising tools that helped sailors navigate with ...

“Dead reckoning” is one of the most common terms uttered by swashbuckling captains in pirate movies. In the early 1700s, it meant using primitive tools like the astrolabe and compass to chart a course ...

Stephen Massicotte's The Clockmaker is an ingenious puzzle of a play. By turns unsettling and sweet, this metaphysical mystery and romance has an original tone that sits halfway between Franz Kafka ...

The 1925 banjo-shaped clock had not worked for eight years when the owner brought it to Don Christo. Now, tick follows tock and the clock's pendulum lazily swings in time. In an age when people think ...

LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KTSM) — In an age where telling time is as easy as glancing at a phone screen, one young craftsman in Las Cruces is dedicating his life to preserving a centuries-old tradition ...

Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class went missing.

Kate Morton is the master of dual point of view historical fiction novels. Each of her previous novels, from 'The House at Riverton” to 'The Lake House,” involve a character from the present ...

A unique event takes place in Clockmaker from December 20-27 uniting the holiday spirit and mission to help grant wishes of children with critical illnesses. LIMASSOL, Cyprus--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Join ...