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 ...

“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 ...

The Clockmaker is running in the Firehall at the 1000 Islands Playhouse through September 8. Resident theatre critic Connie Meng was at the... Aug 13, 2012 — The Clockmaker is running in the Firehall ...

Step into the world of master clockmaker Paul Fournier. Step into the world of master clockmaker Paul Fournier, where he spends each day immersed in the steady ticking of his workshop. Maine Public ...

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 ...

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 ...