Kendall's Longitude
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Maritime navigational tools could find latitude, but finding longitude remained elusive until Harrison developed the reliable sea clock, H4. Building on H4's success, Kendall made a series of nautical timekeepers, K1, K2 and K3.This is the story of the K2 timekeeper; its adventurous voyages, the people it touched, and its place in history.K2's first voyage, accompanied by the young Nelson, was nearly its last in the crushing Arctic ice. The next two...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1788239415
ISBN13:9781788239417
Release Date:April 2019
Publisher:Austin Macauley
Length:234 Pages
Weight:0.52 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"
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