Board of Longitude
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board-of-longitude-315-7449718
title:
Board of Longitude
text:
The Commissioners for the Discovery of the Longitude at Sea, or more popularly Board of Longitude, was a British government body formed in 1714 to administer a scheme of prizes intended to encourage innovators to solve the problem of finding longitude at sea.
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
British government department tasked with improving accurate marine chronometry
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_of_Longitude
date created:
date modified:
2023-08-08T10:16:52Z
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