Clockmaker Solves Seafaring Mystery - Michael Saylor on JP #harrison #johnharrison #clock

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Imagine you're on a British ship, and you've got two clocks in your pocket. One's ticking Greenwich time, the other's flirting with the local noon, and with a bit of subtraction and multiplication, you've just solved the longitude puzzle, all thanks to a clockmaker's clever trick with metals.

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