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Longitude (TV series)
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Longitude is a 2000 TV drama produced by Granada Television and the A&E Network for Channel 4, first broadcast between 2 and 3 January 2000 in the UK on Channel 4 and the US on A&E. It is a dramatisat
Dava Sobel, 2007
Dava Sobel, 2007
John Harrison
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John Harrison was an English joiner and clockmaker who invented the marine chronometer, a long-sought-after device for solving the problem of how to calculate longitude while at sea.
Longitude (TV series)
…dramatisation of the 1995 book of the same title by Dava Sobel. It was written and directed by Charles Sturridge and stars Michael Gambon as clockmaker John Harrison (1693–1776) and Jeremy Irons as horologist Rupert Gould (1890–1948). Longitude presents the story of Harrison's efforts to develop the marine chronometer…
Portrait by Thomas King, 1767
Portrait by Thomas King, 1767
Henry Sully's clock (Fig.1) with escapement (Fig.2) and shipboard gimbaled suspension mechanism (Fig.7)
Henry Sully's clock (Fig.1) with escapement (Fig.2) and shipboard gimbaled suspension mechanism (Fig.7)
Harrison's first sea clock, the H1
Harrison's first sea clock, the H1
Harrison's second sea clock, the H2
Harrison's second sea clock, the H2