Another Harrison clock

[bikedaft]

http://www.theguardian.com/science/...ated-250-years-absurd-claims?CMP=share_btn_fb

 

[Hydrozoan]

Thank you for that link. Very interesting!

 

[macd]

Thank you for that link. Very interesting!

+1. A remarkable man.
Not so sure he'd have approved of the socket-headed bolts (invented 1910), though (or perhaps he would).

 

[Seven Spades]

Comitti of London make a replica that you can buy. I bought one years ago when they were more reasonable mine is number 5

http://comitti.com/collections/the-navigator/navigator-gold-plated-with-mahogany-base/

 

[ronsurf]

Thanks for the link. Harrison was a remarkable man, and was treated very shabbily by people who saw his class and background before they saw his intellect. I wish we could say things have changed!

 

[Sailingsaves]

Thanks for the link. Harrison was a remarkable man, and was treated very shabbily by people who saw his class and background before they saw his intellect. I wish we could say things have changed!

Indeed.

Great link and story. Shame he was treated so badly by his peers - insane indeed! Shame it took so long for his vindication.

 

[Seven Spades]

By the DVD "Longitude" it is brilliant.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Longitude-DVD-Michael-Gambon/dp/B000L42N96

 

[johnalison]

I remember being bowled over by the then modest display of Harrisons 1-4 around 1980.

There was an obituary some ten or more years ago of some chap who used to work for the National Physical Laboratory. His retirement hobby was making mechanical timepieces and held the world record for accuracy, exceeding the best quartz clocks of the time. It was explained that he used very long pendulums enclosed in a vacuum, and I believe swinging no more than about a millimetre.

 

[david_bagshaw]

most interesting thanks for the link.

 

[BelleSerene]

By the DVD "Longitude" it is brilliant.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Longitude-DVD-Michael-Gambon/dp/B000L42N96

The book's excellent too. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Longitude-D...=1429644113&sr=1-1-catcorr&keywords=longitude

 

[Scomber]

a yorkshireman too!!!! good lad

 

[Neil_Y]

Interesting thanks for the link....as you can see I was inspired by Harrison when coming up with a company name.

 

[Binman]

The book is a great read, read my mates copy a month ago, he's ex RYA instructor in navigation, been giving me some free classes at his home.

 

[Hydrozoan]

+1. A remarkable man.
Not so sure he'd have approved of the socket-headed bolts (invented 1910), though (or perhaps he would).

Yes, I blinked when I saw them - but I think he'd have approved of them. After all, his first clock had an all wooden mechanism!

 

[mjcoon]

Comitti of London make a replica that you can buy. I bought one years ago when they were more reasonable mine is number 5

http://comitti.com/collections/the-navigator/navigator-gold-plated-with-mahogany-base/

Good grief! Mahogany and gold plate! Reminds me of a colleague of decades ago who said he had bought a fancy clock that had a "chain fusee". Oh, I said, interesting mechanism. He didn't know what it was and how it worked and why it was expensive to build...

Mike.