Taraxacum: Clock Dude

For those of you who thought my reference to clocks and longitude was the result of drugs long past or a science historian's wet dream, the man's name was John Harrison. He developed a clock that was accurate to 3 mintues after a passage from London to Jamaica. Here is his story.

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