Longitude
Part 1 (1x1)
Air date: 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.
- Premiered: Jan 2000
- Episodes: 2
- Followers: 1
- Ended
- Channel 4
- Sunday at 20