"the unlikely hero"

https://theconversation.com/the-longitude-problem-how-we-figured-out-where-we-are-16151 > The 18th century was an era of international trade and aggressive global expansion, which meant there was a pressing need to accurately calculate your position at sea. This led to the formation of the Board of Longitude, which offered a £20,000 cash prize - equivalent to about £1.5m today - to anyone who could solve the “longitude problem”. > Schaffer described how a Yorkshire carpenter named John Harrison became an unlikely hero of the quest to measure longitude. Submitting his initial design for a sea clock in 1730, Harrison lobbied the board with improvements for the next 40 years. His H4 model - now displayed at the National Maritime Museum - accurately told longitude while withstanding a variety of temperatures and pressures. ...

huh, I did not know the sextant was invented *after* the sea clock. lucky 10,000 I guess.

Going for the award of longest run on sentence in a meme

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