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One Engineer, One Minute: 7-John Harrison and the marine chronometer

One Engineer, One Minute: 7-John Harrison and the marine chronometer

This video shows how the British clockmaker invented the marine chronometer to calculate longitude.

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Engineers, STEM, Harrison chronometer
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Material Type:
Presentation
Date Added to MERLOT:
September 25, 2026
Date Modified in MERLOT:
September 25, 2026
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Submitter:
Eduardo Montero
Primary Audience:
Grade School, Middle School, High School, College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division, Graduate School, Professional, Pre-K
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Video
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Language:
English
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No
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Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

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