Cuckoo clocks began regularly chiming on the hour in the middle of the 18th century in the Black Forest area of southwest ...

PORTLAND, Ore. – What do you think of when you think of Portland? Whatever you're imagining, it's likely on the new enormous cuckoo clock commissioned by Travel Portland that's currently on display in ...

In the the world’s largest cuckoo clock, found in Triberg, Germany, the cuckoo bird alone is 14 feet long and weighs 330 pounds. The whole thing is based on a much smaller cuckoo clock that is about ...

Keeping time and the instruments that keep our time have long held fascination for scientists and design enthusiasts. Since the early 17th century when Galileo Galilei discovered that pendulums could ...

Japanese brand Nendo has designed three unusual variations of the traditional cuckoo clock, including one that doubles up as a bookend, and one that naturally rests on its roof. Each of the three ...

Let's be more like Switzerland!” exclaimed one excited activist at the Lib-Dem conference this week. I had a momentary mental flash of the stunt-happy Sir Ed Davey flying out of a cuckoo clock pursued ...