99% Invisible explores the centuries-long challenge of determining longitude at sea, a problem that caused countless shipwrecks and stumped the world's greatest minds, until an obsessive underdog arrived with a novel solution that changed navigation forever.
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The Deadly Longitude Problem
For centuries, sailors couldn't accurately determine their east-west position at sea, leading to catastrophic shipwrecks and loss of life.