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John Harrison
No full textJohn Harrison was born December 2, 1881 in Burnt Corrall, Juab, Utah. His parents were John and Margaret Ann Vest Harrison. He married Laura Beatrice Neal in Jensen on October 14, 1909. The moved to Ashley Ward in 1925. Children born to this union were eleven, John, Vera, Harvey, Charles, Lilly, Virginia, Dorothy, Norris, Howard, Daniel, and Laura. He died on March 17, 1949 and is buried in the Rock Point Cemetery in Vernal, Utah
James Short and John Harrison: personal genius and public knowledge
No full textThe instrument maker James Short, whose output was exclusively reflecting telescopes, was a sustained and consistent supporter of the clock and watch maker John Harrison. Short’s specialism placed his work in a tradition that derived from Newton’s Opticks, where the natural philosopher or mathematician might engage in the mechanical process of making mirrors, and a number of prominent astronomers followed this example in the eighteenth century. However, it proved difficult, if not impossible, to capture and communicate in words the manual skills they had acquired. Harrison’s biography has similarities with Short’s but, although he was well received and encouraged in London, unlike Short his mechanical practice did not place him at the centre of the astronomers’ agenda. Harrison became a small part of the growing public interest in experimental demonstration and display, and his timekeepers became objects of exhibition and resort. Lacking formal training, he himself came to be seen as a naive or intuitive mechanic, possessed of an individual and natural ‘genius’ for his work – an idea likely to be favoured by Short and his circle, and appropriate to Short’s intellectual roots in Edinburgh. The problem of capturing and communicating Harrison’s skill became acute once he was a serious candidate for a longitude award and was the burden of the specially appointed ‘Commissioners for the Discovery of Mr Harrison’s Watch’, whose members included Short. Now the problem was one of transforming individual genius into a generally useful practice. It was a question that touched on the reputation of Short in the area of his own genius and it was familiar also to the astronomers, men who had engaged with making mirrors, had struggled to systematise and record their methods, and who now, as Commissioners, had to judge whether and how Harrison’s very individual achievements might be shared
John Harrison, The Library of Isaac Newton
No full textJohn Harrison, The Library of Isaac Newton. In: Revue d'histoire des sciences, tome 33, n°3, 1980. pp. 275-276
John Harrison, The Library of Isaac Newton
No full textJohn Harrison, The Library of Isaac Newton. In: Revue d'histoire des sciences, tome 33, n°3, 1980. pp. 275-276
Pluckemin, John Harrison farmhouse 1890
No full textThe John Harrison farmhouse, 57/5, in an 1890 photo from the collection of Mrs. George Ray. The Harrison farm extended north to the present salt dome, and south behind the next three houses. Harrison was a drover; he collected chickens and drove them to Newark. The house was owned about 1900 by William Compton, and later by his son, Anson
Pluckemin, John Harrison farmhouse 1908
No full textThe John Harrison farmhouse in a 1908 photo from the collection of Henry M. Beekamn. The Harrison farm extended north to the present salt dome, and south behind the next three houses. Harrison was a drover; he collected chickens and drove them to Newark. The house was owned about 1900 by William Compton, and later by his son, Anson
John Harrison Sneed
No full textThis image labeled [Jno] Sneed likely shows John Harrison Sneed, a left-handed fiddle player from Cherokee. The photographer was “Doc” Kelly Bennett (1890-1974), a prominent pharmacist in Swain County, NC. Owner of the Bryson City Drug Company, Bennett served as alderman and mayor of Bryson City, on the Swain County Board of Education, as well as several terms as NC State Senator and NC State Representative. He participated in numerous other initiatives and organizations. Known as the “Apostle of the Smokies,” Bennett was an instrumental figure in the movement to create the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. He was also an avid photographer, skillfully documenting a wide variety of people, places, and events in Swain County and the surrounding area
The John Harrison Family Attend Jacksonville State Together
No full textFive members of the John Harrison family were enrolled in school at Jacksonville State in summer 1953. Ellen, Alice, and Mrs. Harrison attended Jacksonville State College while Mary Virginia and Johnny Harrison attended the Jacksonville State Laboratory Schools. (circa June 22, 1953)https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib-ac-histimg/7643/thumbnail.jp
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