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Time restored : the Harrison timekeepers and R.T. Gould, the man who knew (almost) everything
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Time restored : the Harrison timekeepers and R.T. Gould, the man who knew (almost) everything

Jonathan Betts

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Childhood 1890-1905
Navy training 1906-1913
The war, a breakdown, and marriage 1914-1920
John Harrison and the marine chronometer
Research and the first restorations 1920-1922
The magnum opus 1921-1923
Horology : the obsession
H2 is restored 1923-1925
The sette of odd volumes
Separation 1925-1927
Oddities and enigmas 1928-1929
The case for the sea serpent 1930
The RAS regulator 1927-1929
H3 is completed 1929-1931
H1 the full restoration 1931-1933
The Loch Ness monster 1933-1934
The Harrison timekeepers and the NMM 1934-1935
Professor Stewart, the BBC, and tennis 1936
Many projects 1936-1937
Leaving downside, leaving London 1937-1939
Upper Hurdcott and the brains trust 1940-1945
Canterbury and a gold medal 1945-1948.

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