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Elizabeth Harrison:
You've found a way to build this sea-clock, haven't you? John Harrison:
With God's help it might be possible. --I mean, why did He encourage me to build a perfect timepiece in the first place? So the blacksmith might start work 5 seconds earlier or later? Or was it to give us the ability to explore His creation in safety, to move without fear in the space He's given us to inhabit?
You've found a way to build this sea-clock, haven't you? John Harrison:
With God's help it might be possible. --I mean, why did He encourage me to build a perfect timepiece in the first place? So the blacksmith might start work 5 seconds earlier or later? Or was it to give us the ability to explore His creation in safety, to move without fear in the space He's given us to inhabit?
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You've found a way to build this sea clock haven't you
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With God's help it might be possible
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I mean why did he encourage me to build a perfect timepiece in the first place
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So the blacksmith might start work five seconds earlier or later
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or was it to give us the ability to explore his creation in safety
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to move without fear in the space he's given us to inhabit
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Movie Summary
In two parallel stories, the clockmaker John Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea in the 18th Century and the horologist Rupert Gould becomes obsessed with restoring it in the 20th Century.
Actors
Elizabeth Harrison
John Harrison
