On: Imperial College working with Royal Navy on system to replace GPS on ships

[scrlk]

Reminds me of the rewards that were offered in the 1700s to build a marine chronometer that would allow for the accurate computation of longitude at sea.

See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude_rewards

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harrison

[fotta → scrlk]

Dava Sobel’s Longitude is a great book on this topic.

[throw0101b → fotta]

The mini-series is also a fun watch:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude_(TV_series)