But with a simple drum and weight, it only had a runtime of a few minutes. What started as a simple “can I make it run longer” spiraled into a full-blown beautiful grandfather clock.

This is the most common broken thing on grandfather clocks. If there's some type of failure from the weights, the weights come crashing down, and when you get a 200-year-old clock, chances are it ...

like grandfather clocks, involve weights suspended from a pivot, the swing of which defines time. When irradiated with microwaves of certain frequencies, the atomic state changes from one energy ...