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Season 26 · Episode 1
Landed Tue, 6 Oct 1998 · 21:00 your time · 1 episode · 1h 0m
Season 26 of NOVA premiered Tuesday, 6 October 1998 at 9pm ET on PBS.
- S26E01Lost at Sea: The Search for LongitudeIn 1714, following a maritime disaster, British Parliament offers £20,000 for the first reliable method of determining longitude on a ship at sea. It's known that longitude can be found by comparing a ship's local time to the time at the port of origin. The challenge is finding a clock—a chronometer—that can keep time at sea, where temperature changes, humidity, gravity and a ship's movement affect accuracy. NOVA chronicles the seventeenth-century journey to determine longitude.
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