I mentioned this story in a different thread and thought I’d share it.
John Harrison was an English joiner and clockmaker who invented the marine chronometer, a long-sought-after device for solving the problem of how to calculate longitude while at sea. Harrison’s solution revolutionized navigation and greatly increased the safety of long-distance sea travel
Along the way he also invented the bi-metal strip used in temperature sensing equipment. We all have them in our houses and cars today.
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The full movie Longitude is on youtube.
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That’s not the documentary I saw before
Never knew they made a movie of it all
Edited a typo
This video has 6 views and was literally just uploaded…
Uploaded 4 days ago…isn’t that how its supposed to work
Not the original documentary I saw 20 years ago but still tells the story
999 times out of 1000, OP is the uploader farming views when a TIL is posted on a video with <10 views
