Tick Tock Tick Tock

[OwlHoot]

Isn't there a Harrison clock that was "lost" and is now unaccounted for?

OH in "getting my history from Only Fools and Horses" mode

[Gibbon]

So that old geezer Harrison was right all along.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/300-year-o...4.html#kVzAdGm

The man was a genius.

Yep absolutely. 'The story of Longitude' is one of my favourite factual books.

[MarillionFan]

So that old geezer Harrison was right all along.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/300-year-o...4.html#kVzAdGm

The man was a genius.

I wouldn't say I would go as far as that, but it's good to see him and Chewy back.

[zeitghost]

So that old geezer Harrison was right all along.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/300-year-o...4.html#kVzAdGm

The man was a genius.

A pendulum clock designed 300 years ago has been certified as the world’s most accurate in its class by time-keeping experts from Guinness World Records.

The pendulum clock design was created in the the 18th century - but never built, and a book describing the technique was dismissed as the ‘ramblings’ of an old man.

Its creator, famous clock designer John Harrison had boasted that it would be not gain or lose a second in 100 days - a preposterous idea at the time.

But when horology experts at Greenwich’s Royal Observatory built the clock from Harrison’s design within a perspex case, and monitored it against the speaking clock, he was right.

Harrison is world-famous as the inventor of the first clock accurate enough to permit British ships to navigate past the Equator, chronicled in the bestselling book Longitude.