Have you seen Longitude? I’ve only read the book but I know some people that watched a documentary. Basically when they were trying to come up with an accurate way to determine longitude, all the elites said the answer was in the stars and could be found through education and more research and that a clock could never be built accurately enough. One old tinkerer was like fuck that, I can build a clock that good. And he did, but wasn’t credited until after his death.