See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_longitude#Governmen...
John Harrison invented very stable clocks that could be used on an unstable platform to solve the problem.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_longitude#Governmen...
John Harrison invented very stable clocks that could be used on an unstable platform to solve the problem.
Harrison's work is very interesting. But it seems to have been a one-off.