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21 March, 15:39

Who earned a small fortune by inventing and refining an accurate timepiece that would function well on ships. this allowed accurate calculations of longitude?

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  1. 21 March, 16:58
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    This device is called the marine chronometer. It was coined by Jeremy Thacker from the Greek word 'chronos' which means time and the word 'meter' which means counter. However, the person who invented this was John Harrison during the 18th century. At that time, he earned £20,000.
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