Longitude

Longitude

Part 1 (1x1)


Udgivelsesdato: Jan 02, 2000

When the British Parliament creates an award of £20,000 to whoever can come up with a solution for determining longitude at sea, a carpenter-turned-clockmaker, John Harrison, begins his experiments to build an accurate timepiece unaffected by sea travel. His main obstacles are lack of money, a judgment Board convinced that the answer lies in astronomy and not clocks, and the mechanics of the clock itself.

  • Premieret: Jan 2000
  • Afsnit: 2
  • Følgere: 1
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