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Noun Named Entity
Categories: Engineers from Yorkshire, People from Barrow upon Humber, People from Foulby, 1693 births, English designers
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John Harrison  H4  H4 chronometer  H5  Harrison, John
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John Harrison was an English carpenter and clockmaker who invented the marine chronometer, a long-sought-after device for solving the problem of calculating longitude while at sea. Wikipedia
English:
clockmaker
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John Harrison was an English carpenter and clockmaker who invented the marine chronometer, a long-sought-after device for solving the problem of calculating longitude while at sea. Wikipedia
English clockmaker, horologist and inventor of the marine chronometer Wikidata
IS A
homo
AWARD RECEIVED
Copley Medal
CHILD
William Harrison
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
Great Britain
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Nordisk familjebok
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
Obalky knih.cz
FAMILY NAME
Harrison
GIVEN NAME
John
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
English
OCCUPATION
engineer
architect
astronomer
clocksmith
PLACE OF BIRTH
Foulby
PLACE OF BURIAL
St John-at-Hampstead
PLACE OF DEATH
London
RESIDENCE
Red Lion Square
SEX OR GENDER
male
WRITING LANGUAGE
English
Wikipedia
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John Harrison
Wikidata
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John Harrison
Wikipedia Redirections
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H4 (chronometer), H4 chronometer, H5 (chronometer), Harrison, John, Harrison Number Five, Harrison Number Four, John Harrison (clockmaker)

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