<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 4 Apr 2017, at 16:05, <a href="mailto:Paul.Koning@dell.com" class="">Paul.Koning@dell.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">On Apr 4, 2017, at 7:43 AM, John Haxby <<a href="mailto:john.haxby@oracle.com" class="">john.haxby@oracle.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">This is from a series of things that made the modern economy, it says on<br class="">the web page:<br class=""><br class="">Tick tock: The importance of knowing the right time:<br class=""><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39129620" class="">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39129620</a><br class=""><br class="">In one short page it manages to mention everything but DST :) and it<br class="">includes a picture of Harrison No 1. ...<br class=""></blockquote><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Interesting they would show No. 1 rather than No. 4, which is the one that actually solved the longitude problem.</span></div></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="">Possibly because it looks as though it means business. It did solve the longitude problem, it just wasn’t small enough to be a practicable solution. It’s in a glass case about a metre on a side and, if memory serves, still running. No.4 is too valuable even to clean but doesn’t look anything special. No.6 sold for several million[1] :)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">jch</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">[1] <a href="https://youtu.be/Er_gYljbmno?list=PLW4Z0lilD4aHrIi8FLNI2oTn_hPF6xWED" class="">https://youtu.be/Er_gYljbmno?list=PLW4Z0lilD4aHrIi8FLNI2oTn_hPF6xWED</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>