[Stephen Hobley] has been experimenting with an electromagnetic pendulum in order to build himself a clock. Through the course of his experiments, he has learned quite a bit about how pendulums ...

That big grandfather clock in the library might be an impressive piece of mechanical ingenuity, and an even better example of fine cabinetry, but we’d expect that the accuracy of a pendulum ...

and of which this clock faithfully records the rising and setting The inhabitants of Beauvais possess a wonder of the world, and we are indebted to them for showing it at the Exhibition of Paris ...

The Foucault pendulum which was displayed for many years in the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History was removed in late 1998 to make room for the Star-Spangled Banner Preservation ...

The days are slowly getting longer, and that can only mean one thing: the clocks will soon be going ... the idea in a letter he wrote when in Paris in 1784. In it he joked that Parisians should ...

Much of that opinion came from worries that tinkering with time has detrimental effects on the body because it confuses the body clock's sensitivity to daylight and melatonin secretions.

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Stacy Meichtry is The Wall Street Journal’s bureau chief in Paris, where he writes about French politics and business. He also steers coverage of climate policy and the global luxury goods industry.

Prior to working for The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones, Géraldine was CNBC financial news channel correspondent in Paris. Before that, she worked for Agence France-Press where she held ...

This twice-a-year ritual of adjusting clocks forward in spring and back in autumn has been ingrained in American, Canadian and Cuban life for more than a century. However, recent legislative ...

The twice-annual changing of the clocks will happen on Sunday, Nov. 3 as the clocks "fall back" an hour, a tradition that is observed by most, but not all Americans. The opposite will happen in ...