Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The depression of 1837 hit Connecticut clock manufacturers so hard that they feared the entire industry might collapse ...

From 1927 until 1st April 2007 UK clocks were set by a time signal transmitted from Rugby Radio Station using a variety of different equipment including this Cold Cathode Clock. This was once of the ...

The fastest-spinning manmade object has been created in a lab at Purdue University. This microscopic rotor is made up of two silica nanoparticles stuck together to form a "dumbbell," and by hitting it ...

Scientists at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland spun a man-made sphere of calcium carbonate at 600 million revolutions per minute. Nick Statt was a staff reporter for CNET News covering ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This unit is all that remains of a ...

“Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, ...

THIS OBJECT IS PART OF THE PROJECT 'A HISTORY OF CORNWALL IN 100 OBJECTS'. BODMIN MUSEUM. From clocks to Baby Belling cookers, the name Belling is now an international one. This fine brass lantern ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the neighbouring towns of Schonach and Triberg in the Black Forest region of Germany are two timbered gabled ...