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NB Three people have shelved this journalism!

This is the story of how a self-taught watch maker figured out how to make the first extremely accurate clock to allow sailors a reliable way to find longitude, particularly at night when it was cloudy. It's also the story of how others, mainly certain astronomers, didn't want to believe it could be anything other than a method using the sky and how some of them made it ridiculously difficult to win the money for solving this puzzle the most accurately. I, for one, had no idea how many land misses and even ships running ashore unexpectedly happened prior to these discoveries.

There isn't much to know about John Harrison's life, but there is some, and then the author digs into some of the other people who either supported or fought against his ideas and work. This is written for the average person who knows nothing about either astronomy or clock and watch making at the time.

I am NOT going to tell you what they are, but there are two brilliant things that John Harrison was the first to figure out that are still used in devices, and at least one is something you have probably used, today.