A chronometer is a type of very accurate clock used to measure the time at sea so that a ship can precisely know where it is sailing. This chronometer was used on board HMS Beagle on its voyage around ...

Libby Purves meets actor Brian Cox and singer June Tabor. Coming up at: 21:58 Weather View full schedule Ship's chronometer from 'HMS Beagle' (made early nineteenth century), from England In our ...

Responding to a recent inquiry, the staff of the Sweetwater County Historical Museum in Green River explained the back story of the New Year’s Eve Times Square ...

Fine watches and jewellery retailer Wempe draws on its history of creating marine chronometers in a new collaboration with British yacht designer Tim Heywood. ‘Ship chronometers are an important part ...

In the days before GPS, the accuracy of a ship’s chronometer might be a matter of life and death. Navigators used them to determine longitude by measuring the local time via a sextant and a star map, ...

The ship's chronometer was essential to the development of the British Nation by providing ships with their longitude. From 1736 when the first practical chronometer was produced by Harrison until ...

Off the coast of Montauk, in the Long Island Sound, at the bottom of Peconic Bay and in other waters around the world, the remains of multiple ships lost at sea during the 1700’s and 1800’s are a ...

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FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — A clock from the beginning of the Nenana Ice Classic has come home to Alaska while the tripod still stands on the river for this year’s round of betting. “The reason we’re ...