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“Longitude” Metadata:

  • Title: Longitude
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  • Languages: ➤  chi - Spanish; Castilian - español, castellano - English
  • Number of Pages: Median: 192
  • Publisher: ➤  Ambol|Anthos - Debate - HarperCollins Audio - HARPER PERENNIAL - Penguin (Non-Classics) - Walker & Company - Harper Perennial - Audio Renaissance - Isis - RB Large Print - Hainan chu ban she - MJF Books - Tandem Library - btb - Books on Tape - Berliner Taschenbuchverlag - Walker - Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli - FOURTH ESTATE (HCOL) - Fourth Estate - Editions du Seuil - Rizzoli - RH Audio - Perfection Learning - Walker Books - J.-C. Lattès - Harpercollins Pub Ltd - ISIS Large Print Books
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  • Publish Location: ➤  New York - Prince Frederick, Md - Haikou Shi - London - Amsterdam, Netherlands

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"Once on a Wednesday excursion when I was a little girl, my father bought me a beaded wire ball that I loved."

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  • First Year Published: 1995
  • Is Full Text Available: Yes
  • Is The Book Public: No
  • Access Status: Borrowable

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John Harrison

Harrison left the world two enduring legacies–the bimetallic strip and the caged roller bearing. Harrison's first three marine timekeepers Harrison's

Grasshopper escapement

century. John Harrison used the grasshopper escapement in his regulator clocks, and also for the first three of his marine timekeepers, H1 - H3.[citation

Escapement

ISBN 978-0-600-03633-3. Betts, Jonathan (2006). Time Restored:The Harrison timekeepers and R.T. Gould, the man who knew (almost) everything. Oxford University

Rupert Gould

Inquirer 23 (2): 18-21. Betts, Jonathan (2006). Time Restored - The Harrison Timekeepers and R.T.Gould, the man who knew (almost) everything. Oxford University

John Arnold (watchmaker)

on Harrison's bimetallic strip of brass and steel. Arnold proposed manufacture of these timekeepers at 60 guineas each. Three of these timekeepers travelled

Jonathan Betts

British horological scholar and author, and an expert on the timekeepers created by John Harrison in the middle of the 18th century. Now practising as a horological

Brocklesby Hall

"Brocklesby Park (Brocklesby Hall)". Retrieved Sep 25, 2024. "The Harrison Timekeepers H1, H2, H3 and H4". Redfern Animation. Retrieved 24 September 2024

Alexander Cumming

member of the commission set up in that year to adjudicate on John Harrison's ‘timekeeper for discovering the longitude at sea’". He made a barometrical clock

Eastman's Royal Naval Academy

Society in 1863. Citations Betts, Jonathan (2006). Time Restored: The Harrison timekeepers and R.T. Gould, the man who knew (almost) everything. Oxford University

Clock

mechanical clocks around 1300 in Europe, which kept time with oscillating timekeepers like balance wheels. Traditionally, in horology (the study of timekeeping)


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