chronometer

Example Sentences

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By the story’s chronometer, a mere eight months had passed.

From Salon • Nov. 24, 2025

He would set his pocket chronometer first thing, before tripping off in his buggy to clients who paid a fee to look at it and set their own timepieces.

From BBC • May 27, 2024

Plenty of interactive exhibits brings the voyage to life, including hands-on experimentation with a chronometer and Fresnel lens, outtakes from the duo’s journal, and short films.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 13, 2022

The magnetic compass, gunpowder, the printing press, the chronometer, the cotton gin, the steam engine and the water wheel are among the many examples.

From Scientific American • Aug. 24, 2020

The problem was not solved until John Harrison produced the first reliable marine chronometer in 1735.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton