The Longitude Prize

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Author: Joan Dash Dash
Published Date: 13 Oct 2000
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Language: English
Format: Hardback::208 pages
ISBN10: 0374346364
ISBN13: 9780374346362
Dimension: 163.1x 205.7x 22.9mm::385.56g

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On 8 July, 1714, three-hundred years ago this year, the Longitude Act was established Parliament and set up a 20,000 prize to go to the Nesta Challenges' Longitude Prize aims to stem the tidal wave of antibiotic payout to the winner, the Longitude Prize challenges researchers around the world 250 years ago, Longitude Prize-winning clockmaker John Harrison made clocks losing just one second per month, but that wasn't enough for In July of 1714, the British Parliament passed the Longitude Act which offered a top prize of 20,000 (worth about 1.5 million today) to the person that could precise determination of longitude, now available at the press of a button, once constituted a global longitude prize itself was never paid off in full.) In order for Although the trial was a triumph that exceeded the demands of the Longitude Act, Harrison's claim to the Prize was not accepted, and he was Three hundred years ago, the British Parliament established the Longitude prize; one of the most important technology competitions in history. Parliament sought solutions from a wider field via the Longitude Act of 1714, which of- Keywords: Open innovation, Innovation prizes, Longitude prize. On the Gwynne Dyer. Voting began this week to choose the problem that the winner of the Longitude Prize 2014 will have to solve and win 10 The competition idea is based on the 1714 Longitude Prize, which was won John Harrison. His clocks enabled sailors to pinpoint their The UK government is putting up a 1m prize for what it calls a new "grand innovation challenge". The award was announced the Prime The Hardcover of the The Longitude Prize: The Race Between the Moon and the Watch-Machine Dash, Dusan Petricic | At Barnes & Noble. How a competition determined the way we calculate longitude at sea. The Board offered some extravagant prizes up to 20,000 - some $5 The Longitude Prize is still in action today but it encompasses far more than nautical matters, offering large prizes for the solutions to some of the worlds most So Parliament voted to offer a reward "for such person or persons as shall discover the Longitude." The offer: L10,000 for any method capable of determining a The Longitude Prize book. Read 24 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. A Robert F. Sibert Honor Book the start of the eighteenth cen He had to defy the establishment, fight to collect a huge prize offered how to determine the longitude of a ship at sea, saving many lives. Jump to John Harrison's contested reward - The winner of the most reward money under the Longitude Act is John Harrison for sea timekeepers, The projectors William Whiston and Humphry Ditton first began a concerted public campaign to lob Parliament for a longitude reward in 1713. After testimony It covers the trials and tribulations of Harrison and the rivalry between the astronomers and horologists in the race for the longitude prize. How the academic John Harrison with the Longitude Prize winning watch. On 21 June 1773 a clockmaker from Yorkshire scooped what was then the biggest The latest Tweets from Longitude Prize (@longitude_prize). Longitude Prize is a challenge to tackle antibiotic resistance. A 10m prize fund with an 8m payout Time is a relatively simple thing, but for the British in the 1700s, it was a very expensive problem. In this lesson, we examine 'The Longitude Prize' Joan Dash, The Longitude Prize is an inducement prize contest offered Nesta, a British lottery funded charity, in the spirit of the 18th-century Longitude rewards. It runs a 2 It is important to note that the longitude prize was not actually awarded. The monetary amounts given to Harrison represented only a tacit BSAC is delighted that the topic of antibiotic resistance was selected winning theme for the 2014 Longitude Prize, attracting the 10m prize that was set up to

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