Tuning fork crystals, also known as wrist watch crystals, are one of the classical crystal design used for time control in watches, clocks, and other electronic devices. The most common frequency of ...

The Keefer Bar, located in Vancouver’s Chinatown, has the appearance of a postwar back-alley Asian apothecary-cum-opium-den. Behind the bar are jars of medicinal herbs—astragalus, magnolia bark, a ...

In a curious inquiry, a reader sparks a cosmic conversation by questioning whether a tuning fork struck in the void of space could forever produce vibrations. Is that possible? Before we delve into ...

Long before Apple, Garmin, Timex and Casio, Accutron invented the world’s first fully electronic watch. In 1960, Bulova’s subsidiary introduced the Spaceview with a Tuning Fork movement, which used a ...

[Willem Koopman aka Secretbatcave] was looking at a master clock he has in his collection which was quite a noisy device, but wanted to use the matching solenoid slave clock mechanism he had to hand.

THE tuning-fork when its number of double vibrations, to and from in a second, or briefly its frequency, has been ascertained, is a most convenient instrument for measuring minute divisions of time.

MR. HERMANN SMITH, in a letter in NATURE last week, commenting upon my paper read before the Physical Society on June 10, of which you gave a short report, offers some very cogent experiments in ...