John Bendall

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Kendall's LongitudePaperback, 30 April 2019

Kendall's Longitude
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Print Length
234 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Austin Macauley
Date Published
30 Apr 2019
ISBN-10
1788239415
ISBN-13
9781788239417

Description

Maritime navigational tools could find latitude, but finding longitude remained elusive until Harrison developed the reliable sea clock, H4. Building on H4's success, Kendall made a series of nautical timekeepers, K1, K2 and K3. This is the story of the K2 timekeeper; its adventurous voyages, the people it touched, and its place in history. K2's first voyage, accompanied by the young Nelson, was nearly its last in the crushing Arctic ice. The next two expeditions saw it survive kidnappings, nautical intrigue, and gunpowder plots of the American revolutionary wars. The slave coasts of Africa followed. Bligh took K2 on the Bounty, but lost it in a fight with the mutineers in 1789. It was recovered by an American Quaker from Nantucket, only to be stolen by the Spanish. It rode on mules along the Andes before sailing into the Opium Wars. K2 finally returned to Greenwich in 1963. DRAMATIC, THREE NATION 'STORY OF TIME'

Product Details

Author:
John Bendall
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
30 April 2019
Dimensions:
20.32 x 12.7 x 1.24 cm
ISBN-10:
1788239415
ISBN-13:
9781788239417
Language:
English
Pages:
234
Publisher:
Weight:
235.87 gm

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