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1) Longitude: the true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Describes the forty-year effort of John Harrison to invent the chronometer, the first instrument able to keep accurate time for navigational purposes--
Describing the eighteenth-century dilemma regarding the inability to measure longitude at sea, the story of John Harrison and his development of the chronometer recounts the circumstances surrounding its invention.--
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Ruth's beloved grandfather instilled in her a love of timepieces. Unfortunately after her grandmother died and he remarried, Ruth and Grandpa Thom became estranged. She's wanted to reconnect after her recent divorce, but sadly they've run out of time. Her grandfather has been found dead after a break-in at his shop and the police believe he was murdered.
3) Clockwork
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Long ago in Germany, a storyteller's story and an apprentice clockwork-maker's nightmare meet in a menacing, lifelike figure created by the strange Dr. Kalmenius.
Author
Series
Loom saga volume 1
Publisher
Keymaster Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Ari lost everything she once loved when the Five Guilds' resistance fell to the Dragon King. Now, she uses her gift for clockwork machinery to earn a living on the black market. Cvareh would do anything to see his sister usurp the Dragon King's place on the throne, and the Alchemist Guild on Loom might hold the key. When Ari stumbles across a wounded Cvareh, she sees an opportunity to slaughter an enemy and make a profit. He sees an opportunity to...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The classic Steampunk novel from the creator of the term itself thirty years ago this month. When George's father died, he left his son a watchmaker's shop, and a whole lot more. But George has little talent for watches and other infernal devices. When someone tries to steal an old device from the premises, George finds himself embroiled in a mystery of time travel, wild music and sexual intrigue.
Author
Series
Watchmaker of Filigree Street series volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Natasha Pulleys Watchmaker of Filigree Street captivated readers with its charming blend of historical fiction, fantasy, and steampunk. Now, Pulley revisits her beloved characters in a sequel that sweeps readers off to Japan in the 1880s, where nationalism is on the rise and ghosts roam the streets.
Author
Series
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
[[2012] 2012]
Language
English
Description
A novel based on the album "Clockwork Angels" by the rock band Rush follows a young man on a quest through a world of lost cities, pirates, anarchists, and a Watchmaker who imposes precision on all aspects of daily life.
11) The watchmakers
Author
Publisher
Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Harry Lenga was born to a family of Chassidic Jews in Kozhnitz, Poland. The proud sons of a watchmaker, Harry and his two brothers, Mailekh and Moishe, studied their father’s trade at a young age. Upon the German invasion of Poland, when the Lenga family was upended, Harry and his brothers never anticipated that the tools acquired from their father would be the key to their survival. Under the most devastating conditions imaginable—with death...
Author
Publisher
Melanie Kroupa Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the need for sailors to be able to determine their position at sea and the efforts of John Harrison, an eighteenth century man who spent his life refining instruments to enable them to do this.
14) Longitude
Publisher
A&E
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Interweaves two stories: John Harrison's forty-year obsession with building his perfect timekeeper, known today as the chronometer; and naval officer Rupert Gould who, two hundred years later, stumbles across Harrison's forgotten chronometers and devotes himself to restoring Harrison's long-neglected mechanical masterpieces.
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