Remarks on a pamphlet [respecting H.'s chronometer] lately published by the Rev. Mr. Maskelyne, under the authority of the Board of Longitude / By John Harrison.

  • John Harrison
Date:
1767
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Credit: Remarks on a pamphlet [respecting H.'s chronometer] lately published by the Rev. Mr. Maskelyne, under the authority of the Board of Longitude / By John Harrison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    C 2 3 ] dered quite incorre<ft, and as far as I can learn, incapable of being repaired without having fome efTential Parts made anew Thus perilled the fir ft Eftays of this long wifhed for Invention ! Unwilling however that the Public fihould lofe the Benefit of the Difcovery, or the Chance of further Improvement, I applied, by repeated Letters, to the Board, praying that the Watch might be lent to me (otter¬ ing Security for it if required) for the Sake of employing other Workmen to make the different'Parts by Model, with quicker DIE patch, and in Order to determine by Expe¬ riments, whether fome expenfive Parts of the Machinery might not be abridged or totally left out. Still have mv Requefts been refufed, and of late they have alledged that they cannot keep their Engagements with Mr. Kendall if they were to lend me the Watch. What thofe Engagements are may be been below.'* The new Act, as f have * 1 he Board contraded with Mr. Kendall (one of the fix Per fens to whom the Difcovery was made) to make at Watch after the Model of mine, lie was to be paid for every Tiling before-hand, and to begin in a Twelvemonth after making the Bargain ; he is to make Parts like Parts, but is not to be anfwerable for his Watch’s going at all. My Timekeeper is now in his Poffeffion, tho’ he is not yet ready to make Ufe of it ; There aiefome Parts in the making of which the Mochi can be of little or no Ufe to him ; 1 only defined it for fix or eight Months, and am confident he can have no Occafion for it before that Time is expired : however I have offered to have it forth coming whenever Mn Kendall declares that he wants it, therefore I ap or el tend their Engagements with Mr. Kendall afford no fobd Keafon for theCommiffiencrs to refute ler.dinpTt to me. o