Atlanta-based Lathem Time Corporation had a good year in 1938. That’s when federal law began requiring employers to keep track of the comings and goings of workers eligible for overtime. Lathem ...

(CNN) -- I have reinstated the alarm clock. An overlooked mechanism in today's technologically-synced, your-phone-does-everything world, it tells the time, it wakes you up, it is decentralized from a ...

While there are still some who, at the mention of the alarm clock, might think of a small, spring-driven, mechanical device topped by a couple of bells with a hammer between them, my generation would ...

Editor’s Note: Watches & Wonders (formerly SIHH) has moved online and Baselworld 2020 is canceled, but that hasn’t stopped watch brands large and small from debuting their new wares. Stay on top of ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. When he was a college student at the University of Wisconsin in the early ...

Waking up at 5:30 in the morning. [Mark Stead] didn’t like the idea either when his chickens started crying to be let out. One simple solution obviously is to eat the chickens build an automatic door ...