Your browser is out of date. Some of the content on this site will not work properly as a result.
Upgrade your browser for a faster, better, and safer web experience.

The butterfly effect: How a boat collision in Long Island in 1880 led to the invention of the metal detector

Click below to get the code. Please include an attribution to Delayed Gratification and a link with this graphic.

We join the dots between an American naval collision in 1880 and the discover of Celtic treasure in Jersey 132 years later.

Taken from issue seven of Delayed Gratification (Apr-Jun 2012), available for purchase at the DG Shop.

A slower, more reflective type of journalism”
Creative Review

Jam-packed with information... a counterpoint to the speedy news feeds we've grown accustomed to”
Creative Review

A leisurely (and contrary) look backwards over the previous three months”
The Telegraph

Quality, intelligence and inspiration: the trilogy that drives the makers of Delayed Gratification”
El Mundo

Refreshing... parries the rush of 24-hour news with 'slow journalism'”
The Telegraph

A very cool magazine... It's like if Greenland Sharks made a newspaper”
Qi podcast

The UK's second-best magazine” Ian Hislop
Editor, Private Eye
Private Eye Magazine

Perhaps we could all get used to this Delayed idea...”
BBC Radio 4 - Today Programme