and the Atmos series of clocks built between 1929 and 1939, run exclusively on the expansion and contraction of a volume of air (Beverly) or ethyl chloride (Atmos) over the day to wind up the ...

Faye Rason's favourite clock in the Lanhydrock collection is the French eight-day striking clock - it is one of 20 she has to wind back when British Summer Time ends When British Summer Time (BST ...

When British Summer Time (BST) ends each year, the collections officer at a Victorian country house in Cornwall prepares herself for a busy day at work. At Lanhydrock, near Bodmin, which is run by ...

One of the first systems of precision timing kept trains running safely and on time, rang the bells at school, and kept markets trading by using a special clock designed by the Self Winding Clock ...

Gill also oils and cleans them as needed. “Clock winding is a regular part of my job,” she said. “We wind clocks every week. We have eight-day movements in the Capitol so every seven days we ...

Why? “My dad was a clock collector growing up,” Gill said. “And every Sunday we would go around the house and wind the clocks. And that was always just a nice thing that I did with my dad.” ...

Wardens will no longer have to trek up the church's "precarious ladder" after repair work to a village's clock will see it ...

When he's not changing the time, Fjodor's job includes spending one full day a week winding up the mechanical clocks to keep their pendulums swinging. On a typical day of walking around the castle ...