Board of Longitude

To oversee the process, a group of leading politicians, naval officers, and scientists is appointed alongside the astronomer royal to evaluate proposals and to fund and test potential solutions.

This body will become known as the Board of Longitude.

They are the people who oversee the ideas, the schemes, whether they're plausible, whether their ideas deserve merit, whether they deserve a reward, and how trials will take place.

So if someone comes up with an idea, they might be able to get some money to work on their idea, and if that works out well, then they can ask for a trial.

After eighty-one days at sea, the H4 has lost just five seconds.

William can't even bring himself to speak.

The result is substantially more accurate than the strictest test set by the Board of Longitude.

They have done it.