Dash, Joan. <br/><br/>
The longitude prize  / 
Joan Dash, pictures by Dusan Petricic. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - Basel ;  New York :  Farrar, Straus and Giroux,  c2000. 
 - 200 p. :  ill. ;  21 cm. 
<br/><br/> "Frances Foster books." 
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<br/><br/> The story of John Harrison, inventor of watches and clocks, who spent forty years working on a time-machine which could be used to accurately determine longitude at sea. 
<br/><br/> 6-9  8.60  Lexile value, 1160  Metametrics 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0374346364 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>97044257 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Harrison, John, 1693-1776. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Clocks and watches.<br/>Inventors.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QB107  / .D28 2000 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>681.1/1/092  B