The longitude prize / Joan Dash, pictures by Dusan Petricic.
2000
QB107 .D28 2000 (Mapit)
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Title
The longitude prize / Joan Dash, pictures by Dusan Petricic.
Author
Dash, Joan.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
0374346364
Publication Details
Basel ; New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2000.
Language
English
Description
200 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Call Number
QB107 .D28 2000
Dewey Decimal Classification
681.1/1/092 B
Summary
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.
Note
"Frances Foster books."
Awards
Boston Globe/Horn Book Award, 2001.
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