Dash, Joan.

The longitude prize / Joan Dash, pictures by Dusan Petricic. - 1st ed. - Basel ; New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2000. - 200 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

"Frances Foster books."

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.

ISBN: 0374346364

LCCN: 97044257

Subjects--Personal Names:
Harrison, John, 1693-1776.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Chronometers--History.
Longitude--Measurement--History.
Clocks and watch makers--Biography.--Great Britain
Clocks and watches.
Inventors.

LC Class. No.: QB107 / .D28 2000

Dewey Class. No.: 681.1/1/092 B