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42 In 1707, a British fleet returning from Gibraltar smashed into the rocks of the Scilly Isles and lost nearly 2,000 sailors in a single night, because the navigators had no reliable way to measure longitude at sea — and the disaster is what pushed Parliament to offer the £20,000 prize that a Yorkshire carpenter named John Harrison would spend 46 years chasing with a clock

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Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals 2 place · today 09:59 EDT

In 1707, a British fleet returning from Gibraltar smashed into the rocks of the Scilly Isles and lost nearly 2,000 sailors in a single night, because the navigators had no reliable way to measure longitude at sea — and the disaster is what pushed Parliament to offer the £20,000 prize that a Yorkshire carpenter named John Harrison would spend 46 years chasing with a clock

The 1707 Scilly naval disaster killed nearly 2,000 sailors and pushed Britain to offer a £20,000 prize for a solution to the longitude problem — a prize that a self-taught Yorkshire clockmaker named John Harrison would spend the rest of his life pursuing.

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