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Originally Posted by Seahawk
I agree. In that same vein, "Longitude" is a great book:
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You might already know, but a few of Harrison's timepieces have been restored and are on display (and running) the Greenwich Observatory in the UK.
Harrison invented many of the technologies still used on (mechanical) wrists today. In a competition between the mechanical guy and the astronomers somehow the judges (the astronomers) kept accidentally breaking the mechanisms. "Ooh, sorry. Too bad. Try again..."
With so much in London to see for free, that is one museum I'd pay to get into another time.
