Longitude Quotes
Minister for the Navy: [to Parliament] Honorable Members who mourn with us the recent tragic loss off the Scilly Isles of four of Her Majesty's ships, and 2,000 wretched souls therein, under the command of Admiral Sir Cloudisley Shovell, will be pleased to know that Her Majesty's government is to offer a reward -- a prize of twenty thousand pounds -- to any man offering a practicable and useful solution to the problem of finding longitude at sea. A Board of Longitude will be set up, whose sole business will be to investigate any serious suggestions, and finally, it is profoundly to be hoped, to award this prize.
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Captain Digges: Mr. Harrison, it seems I owe you an apology! And may I put my marker down, here and now, for the first watch that your father makes to go on sale to the public?
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Elizabeth Harrison: You've found a way to build this sea-clock, haven't you?
John Harrison: With God's help it might be possible. --I mean, why did He encourage me to build a perfect timepiece in the first place? So the blacksmith might start work 5 seconds earlier or later? Or was it to give us the ability to explore His creation in safety, to move without fear in the space He's given us to inhabit?
John Harrison: With God's help it might be possible. --I mean, why did He encourage me to build a perfect timepiece in the first place? So the blacksmith might start work 5 seconds earlier or later? Or was it to give us the ability to explore His creation in safety, to move without fear in the space He's given us to inhabit?
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[The King asked to try out the new watch himself, but there was a problem...]
William Harrison: You think the magnets were affecting the clock?
King George III: Aye, I'm sure of it, sir. Take these out and throw them in the garden. Immediately! --There. Now we must start all over again.
William Harrison: Your Majesty is very kind.
King George III: Piffle, sir. I'm a scientist!
William Harrison: You think the magnets were affecting the clock?
King George III: Aye, I'm sure of it, sir. Take these out and throw them in the garden. Immediately! --There. Now we must start all over again.
William Harrison: Your Majesty is very kind.
King George III: Piffle, sir. I'm a scientist!
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