Windmill, S Hills, Brill, Bucks, UK – Longitude (2000)
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bill&ben
N 51° 49.372 W 001° 03.301
30U E 634044 N 5743126
John Harrison tests his chronometer in a boat in the sea overlooked by a windmill. The windmill used is not on the coast, but inland at Brill.
Waymark Code: WMM59V
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 07/24/2014
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The film chronicles the development of the marine chronometer by John Harrison. Harrison attempts to win a prize, offered by Parliament, for a device for measuring longitude accurately at sea. The biggest obstacle to Harrison was the opposition of the Board of Longitude, but Harrison succeeds in the end.
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