Chicago’s public clocks are the physical heartbeat of the city

From the Wrigley Building’s clock tower to the clocks at the old Marshall Fields (now Macy’s), public clocks shaped Chicago.
Yahoo

Jeff Bezos Is Building a 10,000-Year Clock Inside a Mountain

The "Clock of the Long Now," which will tell time for the next 10,000 years, has cost $42 million to build so far. The huge mechanical clock ticks once per year and chimes once per millennium. Jeff ...
Hackaday

Building A Super-Compact Cistercian Numerals Clock

Around the thirteenth century CE, European society was in the midst between transitioning from Roman numerals to the Arabic numerals that we use today. Less remembered are the Cistercian numerals, ...
Hackaday

Building A Sliding Tile Clock

Hackers like making clocks, and we like reporting on them around these parts. Particularly if they’ve got a creative mechanism that we haven’t seen before. This fine timepiece from [gooikerjh] fits ...