Word: 1700s
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...example, when the British Navy needed a device in the 1700s to accurately tell longitude, Isaac Newton claimed that navigating by stars was the only possible solution. But, Lakhani said, a watchmaker from the backwaters of Yorkshire solved the problem with a simple invention: the chronometer...