John Harrison, an 18th century inventor whose marine chronometer greatly improved seagoing navigation and saved countless lives, is being honored today with our culture’s highest civilian honor.

Today's Google Doodle celebrates the birthday of John Harrison, who invented the first accurate way to measure longitude. Before 1735, if you wanted to sail across the ocean, you could only guess ...

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John Harrison's third marine chronometer, 1757. John Harrison (1693-1776), English inventor and horologist, discovered the means by which longitude could be determined accurately.

British clockmaker John Harrison helped make marine navigation safer for sailors around the world and his 325th birthday is celebrated in today's Google Doodle.

British clockmaker John Harrison definitely had time on his side. The self-educated horologist and carpenter was born on April 3, 1693, in Foulby, Yorkshire. He is known as the man who came to the ...

Today’s Google doodle marks the 325th birthday of British horologist John Harrison. In 1735, the self-taught clockmaker completed his design of the first marine chronometer. According to Google ...

To honor him, Google shows the inventor hard at work with his clock-making tools in Tuesday's Doodle. Born in 1693, Harrison lived in a revolutionary time for sea navigation.

For the past 100 days, the clock has been part of an official trial to see if it could keep time as well as its inventor, 18th-century clock designer John Harrison, had claimed.

April 3 (UPI) --Google is celebrating what would have been the 325th birthday of British horologist John Harrison with a new Doodle. Harrison, who was born in 1693, was a self-educated clockmaker ...

The inventor John Harrison, who built clocks accurate enough to solve the problems of navigation at sea, has been celebrated where he once lived. Schoolchildren in Barrow-upon-Humber, ...

On Tuesday, Google dedicated its doodle in honor of British inventor John Harrison’s 325 th birthday — the man who famously invented the first marine chronometer to calculate longitude at sea ...