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STORY OF SEA CLOCK INVENTOR GIVES US A FIX ON LONGITUDE.(Spotlight)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 3/31/1996; 787 words
; ... most of us, the words ``latitude and longitude'' fit together like ham and eggs or rock ... to explain exactly what latitude and longitude means in scientific terms, but we understand ... when seamen understood latitude, but longitude was a guessing game. A ship's navigator ...
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Longitude offers women more latitude. (long torso swimwear line offered by Robby Len)
WWD; 1/4/1989; Hartlein, Robert; 604 words
; LONGITUDE OFFERS WOMEN MORE LATTITUDE NEW YORK -- Swimsuit manufacturers ... swimwear manufacturers. The firm's long torso suit is called Longitude and was devised to give the customer another two inches ... swimwear, said Eric T. Weitz, vice president, marketing. The Longitude range has been in the market for ...
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Longitude.
The Economist (US); 10/19/1996; 453 words
; LONGITUDE. By Dava Sobel. 4th Estate; 184 pages; [Pounds ... geographical title, but is really about clocks. Longitude (the up-down lines on maps) measures your distance east or west. To mariners, longitude amounts to time and time to longitude. As ships sailed west, their navigators ...
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Heroix Longitude Reports Q2 License Revenue
Wireless News; 7/19/2008; 342 words
; Wireless News 07-19-2008 Heroix Longitude Reports Q2 License Revenue WIRELESS NEWS-July 19, 2008-Heroix Longitude Reports Q2 License Revenue (C)2008 10Meters - http://www.10meters.com Heroix, a provider of application performance and network monitoring software, announced what it said is record ...
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Use latitude and longitude to find the mummies! (Geography Smart).
Junior Scholastic; 9/3/2001; 354 words
; ... you have a map and know how to read latitude and longitude. Here's how: Latitude: Lines of latitude measure ... they run parallel to (never meet) the equator. Longitude: Lines of longitude measure distance east or west of the prime meridian ...
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Longitude: The Hidden Evidence.(further revelations concerning the sea-clock made by John Harrison in the 18th century)
History Today; 1/1/2000; Ereira, Alan; 787 words
; ... famous by Dava Sobel's bestselling book Longitude, but it has never been clear why, after ... Harrison refused to compete for the Longitude prize and spent twenty-four years on ... hidden are still unknown. The Board of Longitude was established in 1714 to encourage ...
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'LONGITUDE' AND ACTOR IRONS SEEM MADE FOR EACH OTHER.(LIVING)
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH); 7/5/2000; 301 words
; ''Longitude'' is a film about obsession. Jeremy Irons ... part of a 15th-century Irish castle. ''Longitude,'' a four-hour film made for British ... clock that would allow ships to measure longitude at sea. Without the ability to determine ...
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Software Firms Vibrant and Longitude to Merge
The Washington Post; 11/13/2001; Michael P. Bruno; 369 words
; Longitude Systems Inc., a Chantilly maker of telecommunications ... expects to close on its acquisition of the remnants of Longitude Systems in the next two weeks, top executives from both ... Columbia and Boston-based Bessemer Venture Partners. Longitude was founded in March 2000 and landed $10 million from ...
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Sailors' Savior // Finding Time for Longitude
Chicago Sun-Times; 12/10/1995; BRUNO MADDOX; 787 words
; Longitude The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Age. By Dava Sobel. Walker. $19. Longitude opens in a splatterfest of maritime disaster. Rocky continents ... course miscalculations were commonplace, simply because longitude - the angular distance east or west on the ...
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The Longitude Prize. (Nonfiction Award Winner).(author Joan Dash)(Transcript)
The Horn Book Magazine; 1/1/2002; 787 words
; The Longitude Prize written by Joan Dash; illustrated by Dusan ... navigators had no accurate method to determine longitude, leading to great sea disasters worldwide. John ... a passion for clockmaking, began his work on longitude in 1730; it would haunt him for the next forty ... holding firm. It seemed to me ...
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