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Author Dash, Joan.

Title The longitude prize / Joan Dash, pictures by Dusan Petricic.

Publication Info. Basel ; New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2000]
©2000

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Young Adult Materials in Adult Department  YA B HARRISON    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Children's Biographies  J B HARRISON    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Children's Department  J526 DASH    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Children's Department  JB HARRISON    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Children's Department  JUV. 681.11 D229L    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 200 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Awards Boston Globe/Horn Book Nonfiction Award, 2001
Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor, 2001
Note "Frances Foster books."
Summary 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.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR UG 8.6 7.0 43796.
Subject Harrison, John, 1693-1776 -- Juvenile literature.
Harrison, John, 1693-1776.
Chronometers -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Longitude -- Measurement -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Clock and watch makers -- Great Britain -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Clocks and watches.
Inventors.
ISBN 0374346364
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