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Longitude (TV series)
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Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
1998
- 1998 · Documentary · 1h
Based on the bestselling book Longitude by Dava Sobel, the program tells the story of how an unknown genius, John Harrison, discovered the key to navigating on the open seas and thus solved one...
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The Quest for Longitude edited by William J. H. Andrewes The...
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The search for longitude was a problem so complex that it...
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Great Challenge | GPS | Find Your Longitude Ancient...
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Great Challenge | GPS | Find Your Longitude Ancient...
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NARRATOR: William Hogarth's etching shows a pack of...
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Lost at Sea—The Search for Longitude. Program Overview. NOVA...
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Lost at Sea : The Search for Longitude. Recounts how John Harrision discovered the concept of longitude in the 18th century, thus making the waters safe for navigation. Axelrod, David R., screenwriter, television producer; Jones, Peter, 1941- television director; Apsell, Paula S., television producer; Dreyfuss, Richard, narrator; Malahide ...
- 54 min
Oct 6, 1998 · With Patrick Malahide, Richard Dreyfuss. 18th century British clock maker and carpenter John Harrison invents a marine chronometer that allows ships to calculate longitude while at sea, preventing numerous shipwrecks, some of them involving the British Navy.
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- Documentary, Biography, Drama
- Peter Jones
- 1998-10-06
The problem was navigation by sea — how to know where you were when you sailed beyond the sight of land — the finding of your longitude. While the gentry of the eighteenth century looked to the stars for the answer, an English clock maker, John Harrison, toiled for decades to solve the problem.
Richard Dreyfuss narrates this dramatic recreation of longitude's difficult birth, and the remarkable history-making life of a country carpenter named John Harrison. Go back in time ... More....
