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John Harrison, English carpenter and clock-maker, invented the Marine chronometer (died 1776)
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John Harrison
English clockmaker (1693–1776)
John Harrison was an English carpenter and clockmaker who invented the marine chronometer, a long-sought-after device for solving the problem of how to calculate longitude while at sea.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Marine chronometer
Clock used on ships to aid in navigation
A marine chronometer is a precision timepiece that is carried on a ship and employed in the determination of the ship's position by celestial navigation. It is used to determine longitude by comparing Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), and the time at the current location found from…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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Day of the year
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