There's a book I read a while back named "Longitude" that maps the storied quest in science to improve upon dead reckoning by devising greater and greater accuracy in time pieces used on ships. Iirc it was a fun read if anyone else finds that sort of thing interesting (as I do.)
replyIt's a great read! A story of how the scientific elite stalled progress because the right answer wasn't the one they hoped it would be, and didn't come from the sort of person they thought it should.
replyIf you get the chance, you can see some of Harrison's chronometers at the Royal Observatory in London, though I don't know if they're always on display.
I'll add a recommendation for Sextant by David Barrie.
Thanks for the recommendation, I'll add it to the shortlist!
replyWhat other books do you like?
replyI think the introduction of the term in networking simulations and games came with SIMNET https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMNET and continued more widely in the DIS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Interactive_Simula...
replyI first learned of it in some writing about a 1997 multiplayer game called, heh, Dead Reckoning.