Borden Louise

Sea clocks : the story of longitude / Story of longitude Louise Borden ; illustrated by Erik Blegvad. - London : Greenwich, 2005. - 48 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.

Presents an illustrated account of eighteenth-century Englishman John Harrison's forty-year quest to create a perfectly accurate sea clock that would allow sailors to measure longitude.

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Harrison John 16931776 --Juvenile literature
Harrison John 16931776


Chronometers--History--Juvenile literature
Longitude--Measurement--History--Juvenile literature
Clock and watch makers--Great Britain--Biography--Juvenile literature
Clocks and watches
Longitude
Inventors

JUV 01241

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