Clockmaker Solves Seafaring Mystery - Michael Saylor on JP

#harrison #johnharrison #clock #longitude

Moving on to my latest read, and this is something that I picked up at my recent visit to the Royal Observatory in Greenwich #Goodreads #ReadingChallenge #Bibliophile #Bookworm #CurrentlyReading #Longitude #JohnHarrison #DavaSobel #GMT

100,000 reward! The murderer of our late beloved President, Abraham Lincoln, is still at large

http://www.loc.gov/item/96521960/

#albumenprints #herolddavide #johnharrison #assassination #surrattjohnh #boothjohnwilkes #awards #washingtondc #portraitphotographs #letterpressworks #broadsides #wantedposters #lincolnabraham

#OnThisDay March 24, 1693: English watchmaker John Harrison is born. He was the first to build a successful marine chronometer. He would die on the same day in 1776. #BornToday #JohnHarrison

Dune nell’immaginario di ieri e di oggi https://www.carmillaonline.com/2024/02/20/dune-nellimmaginario-di-ieri-e-di-oggi/ #WillisEverettMcNelly #AlejandroJodorowsky #DenisVilleneuve #KevinJ.Anderson #Serietelevisive #GiancarloGenta #GioacchinoToni #BrianHerbert #Fantascienza #FrankHerbert #GregYaitanes #JohnHarrison #FrankPavich #PaoloRiberi #Recensioni #DavidLynch #Narrativa #Cinema #Dune

This is the moment when #Khan aka #JohnHarrison (#BenedictCumberbatch) says: "Now... shall we begin?"

#speeddrawing #portrait video link: https://youtu.be/uM9zD4nYpAk

#drawing #StarTrek #Pencilart #Fanart #timelapse #art #artdrawing #artwork #artoftheday #drawingtoday #drawingportraits #draw #pencilartwork #portraitdrawing

#happybirthday #BenedictCumberbatch #actor #JohnHarrison #KhanNoonienSingh #startrek #IntoDarkness #Sherlock #DrStrange #thorragnarok #InfinityWar #endgame #whatif #spiderman #nowayhome #multiverseofmadness #PatrickMelrose #theimitationgame #zoolander2 #thehobbit #TheMauritanian #thepowerofthedog #MarvelStudios #DisneyPlus

John Harrison (1693-1776) invented an accurate marine chronometer after several decades of research and development. #History #JohnHarrison #Navigation #Time #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2197/harrisons-marine-chronometer/

Mit 0 Beschleunigung heute unterwegs auf dem Null-Meridian.
Lt Reiseführer war es 1714 der Uhrmacher #johnharrison, der als wissenschaftlicher Laie das Konzept des Null-Meridian entwickelte - und noch so schön klingende Dinge wie die Grashopper-Hemmung erfand. Damals gingen Impulse für den technologischen Fortschritt vom Handwerk aus - noch nicht von privaten oder universitären Forschungseinrichtungen.