So that old geezer Harrison was right all along.
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The man was a genius.
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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.
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.
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