( April 2018) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help to improve this section by introducing more precise citations. This section includes a list of references, related reading or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. He also had a fascination for music, eventually becoming choirmaster for Barrow parish church. Legend has it that at the age of six, while in bed with smallpox, he was given a watch to amuse himself and he spent hours listening to it and studying its moving parts. Following his father's trade as a carpenter, Harrison built and repaired clocks in his spare time. Īround 1700, the Harrison family moved to the Lincolnshire village of Barrow upon Humber. A house on the site of what may have been the family home bears a blue plaque. His step father worked as a carpenter at the nearby Nostell Priory estate. John Harrison was born in Foulby in the West Riding of Yorkshire, the first of five children in his family. 7 In literature, television, drama and music.Harrison came 39th in the BBC's 2002 public poll of the 100 Greatest Britons.
Toward the end of his life, he received recognition and a reward from Parliament. Harrison gained support from the Longitude Board in building and testing his designs.
In 1730, Harrison presented his first design, and worked over many years on improved designs, making several advances in time-keeping technology, finally turning to what were called sea watches. The problem he solved was considered so important following the Scilly naval disaster of 1707 that the British Parliament offered financial rewards of up to £20,000 (equivalent to £3.35 million in 2022) under the 1714 Longitude Act. Harrison's solution revolutionized navigation and greatly increased the safety of long-distance sea travel. John Harrison (3 April 1693 – 24 March 1776) was a self-educated English carpenter and clockmaker who invented the marine chronometer, a long-sought-after device for solving the problem of calculating longitude while at sea.
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