Following the Scilly naval disaster of 1707, which lost four British Navy ships and almost 2000 sailors at sea, Parliament decided sailors needed a better navigational tool. The British government ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. English clockmaker John Harrison revolutionized long distance seafaring in the 18th century, solving the problem of calculating ...

Developed over decades in the 1700s, Harrison’s clocks were major steps toward a reliable way of calculating longitude at sea Developed over decades in the 1700s, Harrison’s clocks were major steps ...

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One of the most famous clocks ever built is running again this week - the first time it has done so in over a decade. H4, the marine chronometer that the 18th Century engineer John Harrison ...

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 at ...

Jonathan Betts, senior curator of horology at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and I met in a workshop tucked away behind an impressive display of ships' chronometers and a very strange brass ...

Have you ever heard of John Harrison? Harrison saw a problem and had a driving vision on how to correct it. In the late 1600s, more than 200 years after Columbus reached the New World, there were many ...

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