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 ...

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 ...

A MAN who claims to be reincarnated has vividly described his former life as an 18th-century clockmaker. Chuck McMurray, from Chicago, bizarrely insists he lived a past life as John Harrison, an ...

Up in cosmic heaven, Herr Mann, the clockmaker, and his friend Frieda, are interrogated by a skeptical, mysterious Monsieur Pierre. Meanwhile, back on earth, we catch up on the events that have ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Charles Christensen has been repairing timepieces of all kinds at his Clockmaker’s Gallery since 1979. The shop services a wide variety of clocks, from rare, centuries-old pieces to modern ones.