Kendall's Longitude

by John Bendall

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1788239415
• ISBN13: 9781788239417
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Austin Macauley
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"