Download or read book The method of finding the longitude at sea by timekeepers to which are added Tables of equations to equal altitudes written by William WALES (F.R.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Longitude written by Dava Sobel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem." Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day-and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of land. Thousands of lives and the increasing fortunes of nations hung on a resolution. One man, John Harrison, in complete opposition to the scientific community, dared to imagine a mechanical solution-a clock that would keep precise time at sea, something no clock had ever been able to do on land. Longitude is the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of Harrison's forty-year obsession with building his perfect timekeeper, known today as the chronometer. Full of heroism and chicanery, it is also a fascinating brief history of astronomy, navigation, and clockmaking, and opens a new window on our world.
Download or read book Ships Clocks and Stars written by Richard Dunn and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of eighteenth-century invention and competition, commerce and conflict, this is a lively, illustrated, and accurate chronicle of the search to solve “the longitude problem,” the question of how to determine a ship’s position at sea—and one that changed the history of mankind. Ships, Clocks, and Stars brings into focus one of our greatest scientific stories: the search to accurately measure a ship’s position at sea. The incredible, illustrated volume reveals why longitude mattered to seafaring nations, illuminates the various solutions that were proposed and tested, and explores the invention that revolutionized human history and the man behind it, John Harrison. Here, too, are the voyages of Captain Cook that put these revolutionary navigational methods to the test. Filled with astronomers, inventors, politicians, seamen, and satirists, Ships, Clocks, and Stars explores the scientific, political, and commercial battles of the age, as well as the sailors, ships, and voyages that made it legend—from Matthew Flinders and George Vancouver to the voyages of the Bounty and the Beagle. Featuring more than 150 photographs specially commissioned from Britain’s National Maritime Museum, this evocative, detailed, and thoroughly fascinating history brings this age of exploration and enlightenment vividly to life.
Download or read book Time and Navigation written by Andrew Kenneth Johnston and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you want to know where you are, you need a good clock. The surprising connection between time and placeais explored inaTime and Navigation- The Untold Story of Getting from Here to There, the companion book to the National Air and Space Museum exhibition of the same name. Today we use smartphones and GPS, but navigating has not always been so easy. The oldest "clock" is Earth itself, and the oldest means of keeping time came from observing changes in the sky. Early mariners like the Vikings accomplished amazing feats of navigation without using clocks at all. Pioneering seafarers in the Age of Exploration used dead reckoning and celestial navigation; later innovations such as sextants and marine chronometers honed these techniques by measuring latitude and longitude. When explorers turned their sights to the skies, they built on what had been learned at sea. For example, Charles Lindbergh used a bubble sextant on his record-breaking flights. World War II led to the development of new flight technologies, notably radio navigation, since celestial navigation was not suited for all-weather military operations. These forms of navigation were extended and enhanced when explorers began guiding spacecraft into space and across the solar system. Astronauts combined celestial navigation technology with radio transmissions. The development of the atomic clock revolutionized space flight because it could measure billionths of a second, thereby allowing mission teams to navigate more accurately. Scientists and engineers applied these technologies to navigation on earth to develop space-based time and navigation services such as GPS that is used every day by people from all walks of life. While the history of navigation is one of constant change and innovation, it is also one of remarkable continuity. Time and Navigation tells the story of navigation to help us understand where we have been and how we got there so that we can understand where we are going.
Download or read book The Quest for Longitude written by William J. H. Andrewes and published by Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments. This book was released on 1996 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Quest for Longitude is a book for students and for teachers, for collectors and for scholars, and for the thousands of people who, having enjoyed Sobel's Longitude, desire a well-illustrated reference that describes in detail the many fascinating devices and the intriguing characters who, by solving the ancient problem of finding longitude at sea, changed the world forever. 250 illustrations, 120 in color.
Download or read book The Theory and Practice of Finding the Longitude at Sea Or Land to Whic are Added Various Methods of Determining the Latitude of a Place by Andrew Mackay in Two Volumes written by and published by . This book was released on 1793 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Theory and Practise of Finding the Longitude at Sea Or Land To which are Added Various Methods of Determining the Latitude of a Place and Variation of the Compass with New Tables written by Andrew Mackay and published by . This book was released on 1793 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Theory and Practice of Finding the Longitude at Sea Or Land written by Andrew Mackay and published by . This book was released on 1793 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Philosophical and Mathematical Dictionary Containing Memoirs of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Authors written by Charles Hutton and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Verrazzano s Horizon written by Roger M. McCoy and published by . This book was released on 2016-11 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history professor discovers a journal covering Verrazzano's voyage to North America in 1524. The journal tells of the Verrazzano brothers' efforts to realize their ambitions, but foiled by French politics and nature. While translating Verrazzano's journal the professor has conflicts with his lover that interfere with his own work.
Download or read book The New American Cyclopaedia written by George Ripley and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Piloting Directions for the Coasts Harbours and Islands of North America from Labradore Or New Britain to the Entrance of the River Mississippi written by J.W. Norie and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book An Universal Dictionary of the Marine Falconer Improved and Modernized The Mariner s New and Complete Naval Dictionary Illustrated with Thirteen Or Rather Twelve Copper plate Engravings Third Edition Revised Corrected and Improved by J W Norie written by William FALCONER (Poet.) and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Universal Dictionary of the Marine Or A Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases Employed in the Construction Equipment Furniture Machinery Movements and Military Operations of a Ship to which is Annexed a Translation of the French Sea terms and Phrases written by William Falconer and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Time Restored written by Jonathan Betts and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-05-19 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Rupert T. Gould (1890-1948), the polymath and horologist. A remarkable man, Lt Cmdr Gould made important contributions in an extraordinary range of subject areas throughout his relatively short and dramatically troubled life. From antique clocks to scientific mysteries, from typewriters to the first systematic study of the Loch Ness Monster, Gould studied and published on them all. With the title The Stargazer, Gould was an early broadcaster on the BBC's Children's Hour when, with his encyclopaedic knowledge, he became known as The Man Who Knew Everything. Not surprisingly, he was also part of that elite group on BBC radio who formed The Brains Trust, giving on-the-spot answers to all manner of wide ranging and difficult questions. With his wide learning and photographic memory, Gould awed a national audience, becoming one of the era's radio celebrities. During the 1920s Gould restored the complex and highly significant marine timekeepers constructed by John Harrison (1693-1776), and wrote the unsurpassed classic, The Marine Chronometer, its History and Development. Today he is virtually unknown, his horological contributions scarcely mentioned in Dava Sobel's bestseller Longitude. The TV version of Longitude, in which Jeremy Irons played Rupert Gould, did at least introduce Gould's name to a wider public. Gould suffered terrible bouts of depression, resulting in a number of nervous breakdowns. These, coupled with his obsessive and pedantic nature, led to a scandalously-reported separation from his wife and cost him his family, his home, his job, and his closest friends. In this first-ever biography of Rupert Gould, Jonathan Betts, the Royal Observatory Greenwich's Senior Horologist, has given us a compelling account of a talented but flawed individual. Using hitherto unknown personal journals, the family's extensive collection of photographs, and the polymath's surviving records and notes, Betts tells the story of how Gould's early life, his naval career, and his celebrity status came together as this talented Englishman restored part of Britain's - and the world's - most important technical heritage: John Harrison's marine timekeepers.
Download or read book A Journal of Natural Philosophy Chemistry and the Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1804 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
