[time-nuts] Subject: The Original Time Nut

[Jim]

----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan Fredriksson" <jan at 41hz.com 
<https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts>> To: 
<time-nuts at febo.com 
<https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts>> Sent: Friday, 
February 22, 2008 8:20 PM Subject: [time-nuts] The Original Time Nut >/ 
Hi, />/ /

 >/ Can anyone point to some good reading on John Harrison, />/ who in 
the 18th century devoted his life to making the best />/ timekeepers 
ever built and who also constructed and built />/ the first usable 
marine chronometer. />/ />/ Jan F
/
Hi Jan

In addition to the wonderful work by Dava Sobel, I have
"Greenwich Time and the Longitude" by Phillip Wilson, published by Derek 
Howse 1997; This travels through the sands of time up to the space age. 

"John Harrison"  by Jonathan Betts , Curator of Horology, National 
Maritime Museum

"John Harrison and his Timekeepers" by Lieut Commander Rupert T. Gould, 
R.N. (Retired); Reprinted from "The Mariner's Mirror" (The Quarterly 
Journal of the Society for National Research) VOL. XXI No 2. April 1935

Also, if you ever get to London England, plan a full day at Greenwich.  
Be sure to view John Harrison's time pieces, and get your picture taken 
on the 0 Degrees East and West.

Jim  C.
/
/