Kendall's Longitude Bendall JohnPaperback
Kendall's Longitude Bendall JohnPaperback Maritime navigational tools could find latitude, but finding longitude remained elusive until Harrison developed the reliable sea clock, H4. This is the…
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Kendall's Longitude Bendall JohnPaperback
Maritime navigational tools could find latitude, but finding longitude remained elusive until Harrison developed the reliable sea clock, H4. This is the story of the K2 timekeeper; its adventurous voyages, the people it touched, and its place in history. Building on H4's success, Kendall made a series of nautical timekeepers, K1, K2 and K3.
The next two expeditions saw it survive kidnappings, nautical intrigue, and gunpowder plots of the American revolutionary wars. K2's first voyage, accompanied by the young Nelson, was nearly its last in the crushing Arctic ice. 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,
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