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Ep. 3: Life-Saving Clocks

By: Bill Bryson
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  • Bill is joined by David Rooney, the Science Museum's Curator of Time, Navigation and Transport, who tells the story of the John Harrison Clock and the inventor's quest to solve the longitude problem.
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