Marine chronometer

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In June of 1920, a semi-obscure retired Royal Navy officer working on a book covering the history of marine chronometers ran across something remarkable at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich: the clocks known as H1, H2, H3, and H4, which had been built over the course of a lifetime by John Harrison. But what he found horrified him. Four of the most important clocks in the history of horology had laid ignored for so long that they were not only in a state of complete disrepair, but also…

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