On: The British Navy Resisted a Decent Lightning Rod for Decades

[consumer451]

The solution to Scurvy was known for ~50 years prior to the Royal Navy implementing finally implementing the solution.

> The tragic tale of Scurvy: how beliefs trumped science.

https://www.barkeuropa.com/en/logbook/tragic-tale-scurvy-how...

[sehansen → consumer451]

And then accidentally un-implemented it again when steam power made it (almost) unneeded: https://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm