Longitude (Sobel, 1995)
1760 · Resource
Dava Sobel on John Harrison's lone quest to build a clock that could fix longitude at sea.
On these timelines: Resources: Combined, Popular history books
Around 1760
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- American Revolution (1775)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776)
- US Constitution (1787)