Google commemorated famed English horologist John Harrison on Tuesday, marking what would have been his 325th birthday with a homepage “doodle” that shows him working on his famed inventions. It may ...

Today's Google Doodle celebrates the birthday of John Harrison, who invented the first accurate way to measure longitude. Before 1735, if you wanted to sail across the ocean, you could only guess at ...

In honor of what would have been British horologist John Harrison's 325th birthday, Google featured a colorful time-stopping illustration of the famed clockmaker on its homepage Tuesday. » RELATED: ...

In the early days of sailing, it was extremely challenging for ships to determine their position at sea once they lost sight of land. Their navigation methods didn’t account for environmental factors ...

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