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📊 Series Specifications
Network Channel 4
Episode Runtime ~125 min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 2
Original Language EN
Creator Charles Sturridge
Longitude (2000)
Created by Charles Sturridge
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Ended Series Status:
This series has concluded and all seasons are available for tracking.
Synopsis
The fascinating story of John Harrison who, in the 18th century, believed he could make a clock that would work on board a ship—and so solve the problem of finding longitude at sea.
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1 (Miniseries)
2 Episodes E1 Part 1
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.
E2 Part 2
Rallying after sickness to prove the integrity of their marvelous seafaring chronometers, the Harrisons still had to fight for official recognition, and Gould's restoration of the Harrison clockworks provides a fitting coda to this exceptional story about the thrill of discovery and the tenacity of remarkable men.