MILFORD --The front section of the Swinging Pendulum Clock Shop at 365 New Haven Ave., in Milford, looks like grandma's parlor in the late Victorian era. There's a tufted sofa with bentwood trim ...

When a pendulum clock is running properly, you should hear a rhythmic and even "TICK-TOCK." If you're hearing "tick-TOCK, tick-TOCK," your clock is not going to be running for long.

Q: My husband and I purchased a beautiful Howard Miller pendulum wall clock in 1994. It worked well until a few months ago, when it began adding two chimes, one at five minutes before the hour and ...

Craig Jenkins lost his regular job and decided to open up a clock shop in Milford. The Swinging Pendulum clock shop has been open for eight years now. “I used to build houses for a living.

[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 fun… ...

Previously, [Vinnie] had been stopping the clock every evening, and hoped he would remember to start the pendulum in motion 12 hours later. This was a chore, so he decided to automate the process.

The upper part, or hood, contained the clock itself; the middle, or waist, held the pendulum; the base provided support as well as a place for the clock's weights.

For thousands of years, scientists had no better method for keeping time than the ancient sundial. But starting in the early 1600s, Galileo’s investigations into the swinging pendulum — and ...

The 350-year-old mystery of why pendulum clocks hanging from the same wall can influence each other and synchronize over time may hold even more secrets than previously thought, researchers say ...

Hang two pendulum clocks on the same wall, and over time, something strange will happen: the two clocks will tick in synchrony. Renowned Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens, the inventor of the ...