Longitude [WorldCat Entities]

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"Jeremy Irons and Michael Gambon star as men living parallel lives two centuries apart in this mesmerizing adaptation of Dava Sobel's bestselling book. Gambon plays 18th-century watchmaker John Harrison, who spent 40 years solving the greatest scientific problem of his age--how to determine longitude at sea. Irons is Rupert Gould, a World War I officer who discovers the wreckage of one of Harrison's timepieces and becomes obsessed with restoring the work of the long-ago genius. As the men approach their goals, they are met with increasing opposition, which only serves to strengthen their resolve."@en
"Starring: Jeremy Irons, Michael Gambon, Ian Hart."
"Interweaves two stories: John Harrison's forty-year obsession with building his perfect timekeeper, known today as the chronometer; and naval officer Rupert Gould who, two hundred years later, stumbles across Harrison's forgotten chronometers and devotes himself to restoring Harrison's long-neglected mechanical masterpieces."@en
"Two part drama adapted from Dava Sobel's bestselling book."@en
"Summary: Determined to stop shipping losses on the oceans of the 18th century Britain's Parliament offers a case award to anyone who can devise a way to determine longitude at sea. Convinced he can solve the problem, clock maker John Harrison begins a 40-year struggle to claim the Longitude prize with his marine clock. As World War II breaks out Gould is close to finishing his work on the Harrison chronometers. For Harrison himself, however, the long-sought answer to the longitude question seems to be within reach as he approaches the Longitude Board with the final version fo the clock."
"An adaptation of Dava Sobel's book, Longitude takes viewers back 250 years, when countless sea voyages ended in catastrophe because of an inability to exact a position in the world's vast oceans."@en
"The lives of two men become intricatley intertwined as John Harrison, an eighteenth century watchmaker, solves the mystery of determining longtitude at sea, and World War I officer Rupert Gould becomes obsessed with restoring the work of this long-ago genius."
"Summary: Determined to stop shipping losses on the oceans of the 18th century Britain's Parliament offers a case award to anyone who can devise a way to determine longitude at sea. Convinced he can solve the problem, clock maker John Harrison begins a 40-year struggle to claim the Longitude prize with his marine clock. Twenty years after the first test voyage of his marine timepiece, Harrison is joined by his son William. Harrison puts his son on a ship bound for Jamaica where he will test their timepiece in competition with their rival, Reverend Neville Maskelyne."
"Once out of sight of land, marines had no reliable way of telling their exact position in the world's seemingly endless oceans, so in 1714 parliament offered a 20,000 pound prize to anyone who could accurately measure longitude at sea. This is the true story of one man's forty year struggle to win the prize money by proving that his mechanical clock was the answer, not the stars as most people in the scientific establishment believed. It also tells the story of Robert Gould, who two centuries later tracked down the four machines Harrison had built and took on the task of restoring both the reputation and the physical condition of the clocks, enabling future generations to realise the significance of Harrison's vision."@en
"Het verhaal van een eenzaam genie, John Harrison, uitvinder van het eerste nauwkeurige zeeuurwerk, die het grootste wetenschappelijke probleem van zijn tijd oploste."
"Summary: Determined to stop shipping losses on the oceans of the 18th century Britain's Parliament offers a case award to anyone who can devise a way to determine longitude at sea. Convinced he can solve the problem, clock maker John Harrison begins a 40-year struggle to claim the Longitude prize with his marine clock. When Harrison sets out on his first ocean voyage to test his new clock, even the forces of the Royal Navy conspire to keep his chronometer from succeeding. Nearly 200 years later, Rupert Gould redeiscovers Harrison's timepieces and begins his own life-long campaign to restore them."
"In the 18th century, Britain's Parliament offers a cash award to anyone who can devise a way to determine longitude at sea. Rural clock maker John Harrison begins a 40 year struggle to claim the prize with his marine clock. Two hundred years in the future, a naval officer stumbles across Harrison's forgotten chronometers and devotes himself to restoring Harrison's long-neglected mechanical masterpieces."@en
"Interweaves two stories: John Harrison's forty-year obsession with building his perfect timekeeper, known today as the chronometer; and naval officer Rupert Gould who, two hundred years later, stumbles across Harrison's forgotten chromometers and devotes himself to restoring Harrison's long-neglected mechanical masterpieces."@en
"Interweaves two stories: John Harrison's forty-year obsession with building his perfect timekeeper, known today as the chronometer; and naval officer Rupert Gould who, two hundred years later, stumbles across Harrison's forgotten chromometers and devotes himself to restoring Harrison's long-neglected mechanical masterpieces."
"Summary: Determined to stop shipping losses on the oceans of the 18th century Britain's Parliament offers a case award to anyone who can devise a way to determine longitude at sea. Convinced he can solve the problem, clock maker John Harrison begins a 40-year struggle to claim the Longitude prize with his marine clock. After locating the legendary timepieces in a basement storage room of the Greenwich Observatory, Gould begins his restoration work."