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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Harrison's H1 marine timekeeper at the Prince Philip Maritime Conservation Centre in London, where it is being restored [Neil ...

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 ...

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 ...

Once a month, Life & Arts taps into the many questions received and answered by the staff of the Columbus Metropolitan Library. A sampling: A: The latitude represents an imaginary line drawn ...

His inventions shaped the world as we know it – and famously made Del Boy rich. Carpenter and clock-maker John Harrison died 250 years ago in March 1776, on his 83rd birthday. He is known today for ...