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By Dash, Joan2000., Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The story of John Harrison, inventor of watches and clocks, who spent forty years working on a time-machine which could be used to accurately determine longitude at sea.
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c2003., Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: B HAR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Describes the need for sailors to be able to determine their position at sea and the efforts of John Harrison who spent his life refining instruments to enable them to do this.
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2003., Primary, Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: 526 LASKY Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Describes the need for sailors to be able to determine their position at sea and the efforts of John Harrison, an eighteenth century man who spent his life refining instruments to enable them to do this.
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-- Story of longitudec2004., Pre-adolescent, Margaret K. McElderry Books Call No: 526 BORDEN Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.