Featured artisans
Each contributor pushed timekeeping forward. Their inventions still influence how we build clocks and coordinate seconds today.
- Richard of Wallingford (14th c.): Built astronomical clocks that displayed celestial cycles.
- Christiaan Huygens (17th c.): Invented the pendulum clock, reducing daily drift to seconds.
- John Harrison (18th c.): Solved the longitude problem with marine chronometers.
- Isador Rabi (20th c.): Advanced atomic transitions for precision frequency standards.