07-07-2018, 01:09 AM
Joe,
Excellent video. I saw it quite a while ago. Very well done and a pleasure to watch. Concerning John Harrison (may his name be remembered forever) and his great work, I've often wondered if it crossed his mind to start making chronometers by mass production (if possible) and then selling them to mariners? It would have by-passed that wretched longitude board and that troublemaker Maskelyne. He could've sold the chronometers based on their own value alone.
History is what happened. How many people even know who John Harrison was?
Ah! Those Magnificent Men and their flying machines.....go uppity up up and down dity down....or something like that?
Lou
Excellent video. I saw it quite a while ago. Very well done and a pleasure to watch. Concerning John Harrison (may his name be remembered forever) and his great work, I've often wondered if it crossed his mind to start making chronometers by mass production (if possible) and then selling them to mariners? It would have by-passed that wretched longitude board and that troublemaker Maskelyne. He could've sold the chronometers based on their own value alone.
History is what happened. How many people even know who John Harrison was?
Ah! Those Magnificent Men and their flying machines.....go uppity up up and down dity down....or something like that?
Lou