clockmaker
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There is a gorgeous, heartbreaking story about a piano prodigy in France during World War I. The final story concerns the marriage between a Dutch clockmaker and a theoretical physicist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Time is winding down for Howard Miller, the storied furniture company and clockmaker in western Michigan that said this summer it will close after 99 years.
From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2025
Chelsea had published a feature on its website about in-house master clockmaker Jean Yeo that touched on that celebrity connection.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2025
Stephan Farffler, a clockmaker who lost the use of his legs in a childhood accident, created the device so he could propel himself to and from church in Nuremberg, Germany.
From National Geographic ● Jul. 14, 2023
Robert Boyle, on the other hand, insisted that was precisely how one had to think of the universe: following Kepler, he compared the universe to a clock, and so compared God to a clockmaker.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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