{"id":106369,"date":"2022-01-26T09:21:45","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T09:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essayparlour.com\/paperhelp\/?p=106369"},"modified":"2022-01-26T09:21:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T09:21:45","slug":"in-the-early-days-of-navigation-sailors-had-a-tough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essayparlour.com\/paperhelp\/business-economics-2\/in-the-early-days-of-navigation-sailors-had-a-tough\/","title":{"rendered":"In the early days of navigation, sailors had a tough"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style = 'table-striped table-bordered table-hover' responsive='true'>\n<tr>\n<th>Question<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>In the early days of navigation, sailors had a tough time figuring out exactly where they were. Pinpointing latitude was easy enough with a sextant, but because the earth was constantly spinning, pinpointing longitude by using celestial bodies was impossible. Anxious for a solution to this problem, the British government sponsored a contest with a prize of \u00a320,000 (about $5 million in today&#8217;s dollars) to the inventor who could devise a reliable method of calculating longitude. Once invented, the method would be made available to anybody who wanted to use it. Explain the advantages of such a system in maximizing social well-being relative to the traditional system of awarding patents.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question<\/p>\n<p>\nIn the early days of navigation, sailors had a tough time figuring out exactly where they were. Pinpointing latitude was easy enough with a sextant, but because the earth was constantly spinning, pinpointing longitude by using celestial bodies was impossible. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-economics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essayparlour.com\/paperhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essayparlour.com\/paperhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essayparlour.com\/paperhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essayparlour.com\/paperhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essayparlour.com\/paperhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/essayparlour.com\/paperhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106370,"href":"https:\/\/essayparlour.com\/paperhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106369\/revisions\/106370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essayparlour.com\/paperhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essayparlour.com\/paperhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essayparlour.com\/paperhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}