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Part 1

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.

English
  • Originally Aired January 2, 2000
  • Runtime 125 minutes
  • Network Channel 4
  • Created July 15, 2010 by
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  • Modified December 6, 2022 by
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Name Type Role
Dava Sobel Writer
Charles Sturridge Writer
Charles Sturridge Director