Not by accident, he used Harrison's chronometer and lunar distances to calculate longitudes accurately. |
The elongated stars drifted by as the ships chronometer counted down to zero. |
An expensive chronometer would help here, but one or more well-made hourglasses will also do just fine. |
Part of his effects removed from HMS Victory, the chronometer was later placed in an inscribed carriage clock case by his niece, Charlotte. |
Using a digital chronometer, the time taken for an achene to fall 2 m in a tightly closed room was measured. |
Beaufort inhabited the scientific world dominated by the chronometer invented by John Harrison. |