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John Harrison never received his reward from the Board of Longitude. It came to him by special Act of Parliament, when he was 80 years old
John Harrison never received his reward from the Board of Longitude. It came to him by special Act of Parliament, when he was 80 years old
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oh dear
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Look how it just touches the wheel
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hardly using any energy
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It's named after an insect the grasshopper escapement
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It's funny
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It's 200 years old
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Movie Summary
In two parallel stories, the clockmaker John Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea in the 18th Century and the horologist Rupert Gould becomes obsessed with restoring it in the 20th Century.
