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- W4385974775 abstract "Extract To some people the very name ‘marine chronometer’ suggests a complex and scientific instrument, only of interest to technophiles. In fact, chronometers are in many ways very simple, and even the reader with no technical knowledge should have little difficulty understanding what they are and how they were used. To work reliably, to be cost-effective in manufacturing terms, and to be straightforward to use at sea, they had to be simple—beautifully simple, in fact. Thomas Earnshaw, quoted as the epigraph to this catalogue, was not alone in thinking of them as representing ‘the topmost bough of the tree of mechanism’, the purest of aristocrats in the world of engineering. Of course, the extraordinary nature of the developed chronometer was not created overnight. Below the skin of that beautiful simplicity lies an enormous amount of subtle design, the result of a century and a half of invention, discovery, and manufacturing organization. It is one of the great tales of scientific and technological achievement in the history of mankind." @default.
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- W4385974775 title "Preface" @default.
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