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Re-order Paragraphs
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Re-order Paragraphs
Arrange the sentences into a logical order.
Put the sentences in the correct order:
- This breakthrough dramatically reduced shipwrecks and opened safer, faster trade routes across the globe.
- His invention allowed a navigator to compare local noon with the home port's clock and convert the difference into distance.
- To solve this, the clockmaker John Harrison spent years building a marine timepiece accurate enough to keep that reference time at sea.
- The core difficulty was that calculating longitude required knowing the precise time at a distant reference port.
- In the early nineteenth century, sailors crossing the open ocean had no reliable way to fix their position from east to west.