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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.
First Air Date : Jan 02, 2000
Last Air date : Jan 03, 2000
Episode : 2 Episode
Season : 1 Season
Runtime: 125:14 minutes
Studio: Channel 4
Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
