Off-Topic: Building an Impossible Clock
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/pendulum-clock-john-harrison/424614/
The 18th-century horologist John Harrison claimed that he could
make the world's most accurate pendulum clock, but his methods
were scorned for hundreds of years--until someone proved him
right.
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