John Harrison
John Harrison
John Harrisonwas 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. His solution revolutionized navigation and greatly increased the safety of long-distance sea travel. 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 £20,000under the 1714 Longitude Act. Harrison came 39th in the BBC's 2002 public poll of...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionInventor
Date of Birth24 March 1693
We pays taxes, and it is your job to control the traffic.
Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.
We sat here during Irene in '99 with the back door open, ... We drank and watched all the stuff fly by.
We sat here during Irene in '99 with the back door open. We drank and watched all the stuff fly by.
The projects generated conversations between students of these different disciplines and led to things that they couldn't have created alone. And I'm hopeful that it changed a bit of their perspective on their own discipline.
We are delighted to offer pint-sized inventors a unique opportunity to dream up their own frozen pop creations. The frozen pop was actually invented in 1905 by an 11 year old boy so we are looking forward to seeing what kids come up with in 2006.
We started out when our two boys were early teenagers and we wanted to show them the country. I guess we've been in every state of the Union except Hawaii and Alaska.
World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we realize that meaning is an act. We must repossess it, instant to instant in our lives.
I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposes
Writings like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.
Manufacture dooms in your head and you will go mad. Reality is incontravertible. Also, it will not be anticipated.
Dreamworlds can maintain themselves only as glimpses. Once the writer transports the reader across the threshold, nothing that was promised can be delivered. What was ominous becomes ordinary; what was bizarre, quotidian. Unless you simply keep upping the ante, piling on the bullshit, the only way to revive things is to switch perspectives as quickly as you can.
Perception of a state is not the state.