His first stab at a maritime chronometer started in 1730 and resulted in the Harrison H1 which was given a sea trial in 1736. It wasn’t the very first clock designed for a ship, but it did ...

Last week we received an original Hamilton Model 21 marine chronometer, perhaps the most ... can match the accuracy of today’s electronic clocks, there are a few that over the years came ...

This particular chronometer sailed on many ships - always ... or rather hour-to-hour, way. Thanks to clock-makers like Earnshaw, precise and reliable clocks and watches became ever more affordable.

The peripheral clocks — located in organs and tissues — receive this instruction from the central chronometer and regulate ..