NEW YORK, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- Most people think of the Frick Collection, one of America's favorite small art collections, as a "frozen" holding of Old Masters and antique French and English furnishings, ...

Five timepieces designed by French cabinetmaker André-Charles Boulle have taken center stage at London’s Wallace Collection as part of a free display celebrating the artistry of clockmaking and the ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Harold Lyons was a physicist whose primary interest was in atomic frequency standards and atomic clocks. The collection documents Lyons and his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The brothers had to battle German and Swiss collectors to obtain most of their clocks - William Lailey /SWNS A pair of cuckoo ...

Stony Brook University recently held a contest to answer the question, “What is time?” It could have done worse than to go to the Frick Collection. The Frick’s current headliner is a show of seven ...

When Barbara Koenen describes her revelation, you picture time slowing, time stopping, time pausing on its unending march to oblivion. You imagine a young woman in Chicago struck suddenly with a ...

AMHERST, Ohio - Mark McKinley has the world's largest collection of talking clocks but it's difficult to determine what time it is. Only a portion of the hundreds of clocks in his Amherst home are set ...

Click to open image viewer. A collapsible plastic travel alarm clock in a metal clamshell case. The case has a green map of the Earth on the inside bottom half. The clock is hinged to the top piece ...

There are a surprising number of clocks throughout Drexel University’s campuses. Among the clocks in the Drexel Founding Collection is the famous David Rittenhouse astronomical, musical tall-case ...

A new collection of watches takes inspiration from the founder’s history as a dressmaker. By Sarah Royce-Greensill The trappings of dressmaking — including thimbles, thread, scissors and measuring ...