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Ep. 3: Life-Saving Clocks

By: Bill Bryson
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  • Bill is joined by David Rooney, the Science Museum's Curator of Time, Navigation and Transport, who tells the story of the John Harrison Clock and the inventor's quest to solve the longitude problem.
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Not much to hold your interest

I love Science. I didn't find it very interesting or compelling. No dramatic interest. I didn't think the story, such as it was, was very well told. Definitely would have been boring if it had gone on for more than 15 minutes or so. They just didn't fo a

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Great!

This is a series of short stories filled with wonderful information. I really enjoyed listening to it.

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really enjoyable series

This series is very enjoyable and the experts that Bill Bryson talks to really ties the different objects together really well. Well worth the listen

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