Enlightenment · Europe · Science

1736

Harrison's First Sea Clock

October 1, 1736

John Harrison finished H1, his first marine chronometer: a massive brass cage of rocking balances and grasshopper escapements, driven by gridiron pendulums that ignored temperature. Sea trials proved it kept time better than any ship's clock before. The Board of Longitude gave him a little money and a lot of delay. Harrison began H2.

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After: January 1, 1738: Daniel Bernoulli's Hydrodynamica

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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.