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Inventor of the Naval Chronometer Born (1693)

Published by Dean On April 5, 2024
John Harrison’s H5 Chronometer

Born today, April 3, 1693, John Harrison, the cantankerous Yorkshireman who would go on to invent the naval chronometer and solve the mystery of calculating longitude at sea.

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