The Hoya

Clock Hands Tradition Rekindled

More than two weeks after the clock hands on the front face of Healy Tower went missing, the mystery of who took them remains largely unsolved. After confirming the theft of the front hands, which ...
The Hoya

Healy Clock Hands Replaced

The clock hands on the front face of Georgetown’s famous Healy Tower were replaced by the university Tuesday morning, more than a week after they initially went missing. The hands, which disappeared ...
Hackaday

Unique Clock Is All Hands, No Dial, And Does The Worm

Back in the old days, we didn’t have fancy digital clocks. No, we had good analog clocks with a big hand and a little hand, and if you wanted to know the time you had to look at the clock and figure ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Doomsday Clock’s Hands Will Stay Put for Now

How close is the world to the brink of destruction? One group of scientists visualizes that scary question in terms of a clock ticking toward a terrifying midnight. Today, the board of the Bulletin of ...
Observer

Big Ben’s Restoration Has Revealed That the Clock’s Hands Are Blue

Big Ben at the Palace of Westminster in central London on September 6th, 2021. BEN STANSALL/AFP via Getty Images Big Ben, the iconic clock tower that’s defined the London skyline for generations, has ...