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2000 • 2 Episodes
S01 E01 • Sunday, Jan 2, 2000 • Jan 2 • 2h 5m
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.
S01 E02 • Monday, Jan 3, 2000 • Jan 3 • 2h 5m
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.
Jan 2, 2000 - Jan 3, 2000
