Stephen Hawking to unveil strange new way to tell the time

Prof Stephen Hawking is to unveil a remarkable £1 million clock with no hands that pays tribute to the world's greatest clockmaker. One clock made by the legendary John Harrison, the pioneer of longitude, took 36 years to build and he was still calibrating it when he died at his home in London on March 24, 1776, his 83rd birthday. The Corpus Clock will be unveiled by Prof Stephen Hawking The Corpus Clock will... [read full story]