Billions of people use quartz every day, but few realize it because the tiny crystals they use are hidden in their watches and clocks. But what do the clear or whitish crystal rocks found all over ...

As demonstrated by [InazumaDenki], though, an old quartz clock module can also do the job with just a little work. The module was harvested from an old Seiko wall clock, and features the familiar ...

In quartz clocks, the vibrations of a quartz crystal are controlled and used to measure time. <div class="section1"><div class="Normal">In quartz clocks, the ...

Without the pendulum clock, the Industrial Revolution doesn’t happen. Without the quartz clock, the technology in the digital revolution doesn’t happen. It’s time, weirdly enough ...

FOR THE discerning timekeeper, only an atomic clock will do. Whereas the best quartz timepieces will lose a millisecond every six weeks, an atomic clock might not lose a thousandth of one in a decade.