Harrison completed his first chronometer in 1735 and later built a series of smaller, more portable versions. But it took another 28 years for him to receive even a portion of the Board of ...

The invention of the marine chronometer directly resulted from the UK "Longitude Act" of 1714 that offered £20,000 reward (£2.6 million in today’s money) ...

Inventor of the marine chronometer in 1757. A self-educated English carpenter and clockmaker who invented the marine chronometer, solving the problem of calculating longitude while at sea.

While no mechanical timekeeping device can match the accuracy of today’s electronic clocks, there are a few that over the years came tantalizingly close. And with Daylight Saving Time ...

1766 Pierre Le Roy, inventor of the detent escapement, builds a chronometer with a thermo-compensated balance and efficient balance spring. 1770 Ferdinand Berthoud is named clockmaker to the ...

His invention was finally accepted in 1770s, almost 300 years after the voyages of Columbus. It has even been suggested that his chronometer resulted in Britain’s growth as a naval power.

The answer to this problem is the object I'm standing in front of now - a marine chronometer. It's based on one invented in the mid-eighteenth century by John Harrison, the man who finally cracked ...

The means by which this technical challenge came to be solved by John Harrison, a self-educated man from an obscure background, is well known: Dava Sobel explains his invention of the chronometer ...

The word chronometer was first used by English clockmaker Jeremy Thacker in the year 1714. Under the assumption that locking air out would make the timepiece more precise, he invented a vacuum ...

His invention got blocked and retarded by bureaucracy, but he finally got his £20,000 bounty. Smart entrepreneurs were able to scale his ingenious design to mass production, bringing chronometers ...