Tech pro ThioJoe showcases the unusual Nixie tube clock technology that displays time using glowing vacuum tube numerals.

Nobody wants to breathe solder fumes; that’s a given. For most of us, an industrial-looking fan-and-filter made in China and ...

When it comes to Nixie clocks, we all pretty much know what to expect: a bunch of Nixies with some RGB LEDs underneath, a wooden case of some sort, and maybe some brass gears or fittings for that ...

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Just to close out the topic of electromechanical display technologies, it behooves us to at least make mention of ...

The twice-yearly ritual has roots in cost-cutting strategies of the late 19th century. A recent effort to end it has stalled in Congress. By Alan Yuhas Hello. You may be here to learn when daylight ...

In 2026 they're going back by an hour at 02:00 on Sunday 25 October, and this is sometimes considered the ‘good one’, as you’ll have one hour more in bed. Image caption, Make the most of the extra ...

The Doomsday Clock is a design that warns the public about how close we are to destroying our world with dangerous technologies of our own making. It is a metaphor, a reminder of the perils we must ...

Two teams of physicists have made the world’s first nuclear clocks. These radical new devices keep time using fluctuations in the energy states of an atom’s nucleus, rather than those of its electrons ...

How have clocks and watches intertwined with our sense of time? When did they come to play central roles in our lives? To answer these questions, On Time from the National Museum of American History ...