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Lasky, Kathryn.
The man who made time travel /
Kathryn Lasky ; pictures by Kevin Hawkes.
1st ed.
New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2003.
1 v. (unpaged) :
col. ill. ;
28 cm.
"Melanie Kroupa Books.".
Includes bibliographical references.
Describes the need for sailors to be able to determine their position at sea and the efforts of John Harrison, an eighteenth century man who spent his life refining instruments to enable them to do this.
20070321.
Harrison, John
1693-1776.
Chronometers
History.
Chronometers.
Longitude
Measurement
History.
Longitude
Measurement.
Clock and watch makers
Great Britain
Biography.
Hawkes, Kevin.