The time itself is regulated by the movement of a pendulum. As the pendulum swings from side to side, it advances a wheel that controls the speed of the other gears. Often, repairing a cuckoo clock ...

Grandfather, grandmother and granddaughter clocks are all types of longcase clocks, which stand on the floor. A wooden case encloses the clock workings: the escapement--or clock movements--and the ...

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What started as a simple “can I make it run longer” spiraled into a full-blown beautiful grandfather clock. A gear drive, a ratcheted winding sprocket, and a ball chain gave the clock about ...

Thanks to smart watches and smartphones, analog clocks aren’t quite as common a sight as they once were. One that still manages to make an impression is the grandfather clock, a vertically ...

The need to protect the movement within a high case to house the heavy drive weights, and soon afterwards a long pendulum that beat once every second, led to a style of clock that remained popular for ...

Adolf Hitler personally appointed the grandfather of the co-leader of the far-Right Alternative for Germany (AfD) as a leading Nazi judge, it has emerged. Hans Weidel was made chief judge of the ...

Adolf Hitler personally appointed the grandfather of the co-leader of the far-Right Alternative for Germany (AfD) as a leading Nazi judge, it has emerged. Hans Weidel was made chief judge of the ...

The Reichsbürger are a movement of German conspiracy theorists and neo-Nazis who reject the legitimacy of Germany's post-Second World War Federal Republic. First arising in the 1980s, it is a ...

German expressionism was an early twentieth century German art movement that emphasized the artist's inner feelings or ideas over replicating reality, and was characterised by simplified shapes, ...