Comments on: John Harrison and the Longitude Problem

By: mantel clocks

mantel clocks — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:03:07 +0000

Thanks for this exceedingly good quality post Dave – I will link to you from my Facebook page.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 21:05:25 +0000

This book doesn’t mention that. The reasons given were more like “How could a carpenter turned clockmaker possibly solve the problem that the Astronomy Board couldn’t?” Besides, keeping it secret implies that the British were using it, but they didn’t start using it for decades after it was proven to work.

By: J D Smith

J D Smith — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 20:58:31 +0000

I came across your website while looking for corroboration of England having kept secret, for trading/economic advantage, the Ship’s Clock developed by John Harrison.

I’ll keep looking.

Thanks.