Andy McKenzie

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With no formal education or apprenticeship to any watchmaker, Harrison nevertheless constructed a series of virtually friction-free clocks that required no lubrication and no cleaning, that were made from materials impervious to rust, and that kept their moving parts perfectly balanced in relation to one another, regardless of how the world pitched or tossed about them.
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time
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