English clockmaker John Harrison revolutionized long distance seafaring in the 18th century, solving the problem of calculating longitude at sea and devising tools that helped sailors navigate with ...

“Dead reckoning” is one of the most common terms uttered by swashbuckling captains in pirate movies. In the early 1700s, it meant using primitive tools like the astrolabe and compass to chart a course ...

LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KTSM) — In an age where telling time is as easy as glancing at a phone screen, one young craftsman in Las Cruces is dedicating his life to preserving a centuries-old tradition ...