John Harrison

A self-taught carpenter and clockmaker, he spent decades battling sea captains, skeptical scientists, and bureaucracy. While the scientific elite insisted only astronomy could solve the longitude problem, he built the most precise timepieces – as if saying, “Who needs stars when there're gears?”

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3 April 1693
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Inventor, clockmaker, carpenter
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England

#quotes

"If the courts are making the decisions, it matters who the judge is and, of course, people are concerned with what is the bottom line."

#whatif

...Harrison were more diplomatic?


He might’ve won the longitude prize without having to wait 40 years.🧭