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The Longitude Problem


Year: 2016
Author: Ran Levi
Performer: Ran Levi and Kelly O’Laughlin
Genre: Learning Material / Maritime History
Publisher: CMpod
Type: audiobook
Audio codec: M4A
Audio bitrate: 54
Description: How a single navigation error cost the Royal Navy Four battleships and 1,505 men – and led John Harrison, humble carpenter to solve one of the most difficult & important engineering challenges in maritime history: The Longitude Problem.
Additional info: Seafaring’s greatest danger was getting lost.
By 1700, finding latitude at sea was routine and fairly accurate.
But finding longitude was mostly guesswork. Astronomers thought the answer to finding longitude lay in observing the skies. Others thought the solution was a good seaworthy clock, but no such clock existed.
After an outpouring of ideas and generations of work, both a good clock and a good sextant for observations were invented. These instruments revolutionized position-finding at sea.

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