John Harrison
| John Harrison | |
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| Lahir | 3 April [K.J.: 24 Maret] 1693 Foulby, dekat Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, Inggris |
| Meninggal | 24 Maret 1776 (umur 82) London, Inggris |
| Tempat tinggal | Red Lion Square |
| Kebangsaan | Inggris |
| Dikenal atas | Kronometer laut |
| Penghargaan | Copley Medal (1749) |
| Karier ilmiah | |
| Bidang | Horologi |
John Harrison (3 April [K.J.: 24 Maret] 1693 – 24 Maret 1776) adalah seorang tukang kayu dan pembuat jam otodidak asal Inggris yang menciptakan kronometer laut, sebuah alat untuk memecahkan masalah penghitungan lintang saat di laut.
Solusinya merevolusionisasikan navigasi dan sangat meningkatkan keamanan perjalanan laut jarak jauh. Masalah yang ia pecahkan dianggap sangat berpengaruh setelah bencana angkatan laut Scilly 1707 yang membuat Parlemen Inggris menawarkan bayaran sampai £20,000 (setara £3.09 juta pada saat ini) di bawah Longitude Act tahun 1714.[1]
Referensi[sunting | sunting sumber]
- ^ William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter. "The British Longitude Act Reconsidered". American Scientist. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 20 February 2012. Diakses tanggal 19 April 2015.
Bacaan tambahan[sunting | sunting sumber]
- Lasky, Kathryn (2003). The Man Who Made Time Travel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-34788-8.
- North, Thomas (1882). The Church Bells of the County and City of Lincoln. Leicester: Samuel Clark. hlm. 60–61.
- Sobel, Dava (1995). Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time. New York: Penguin. ISBN 978-0-8027-1312-4.
- Sobel, Dava; Andrewes, Willam J.H. (1998). The Illustrated Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time. New York: Walker Publishing Co. ISBN 0-8027-1344-0.
- Wolfendale, Arnold, ed. (2006). Harrison in the Abbey. London: Worshipful Company of Clockmakers.
Published in Honour of John Harrison on the Occasion of the Unveiling of his Memorial in the Abbey on 24 March 2006
Pranala luar[sunting | sunting sumber]
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Wikimedia Commons memiliki media mengenai John Harrison. |
- John Harrison and the Longitude Problem, at the National Maritime Museum site
- PBS Nova Online: Lost at Sea, the Search for Longitude
- John 'Longitude' Harrison and musical tuning
- Excerpt from: Time Restored: The Story of the Harrison Timekeepers and R.T. Gould, 'The Man who Knew (almost) Everything'
- UK Telegraph: 'Clock from 1776 just goes on and on'
- Andrew Johnson, Longitude pioneer was not a 'lone genius', The Independent, 31 May 2009
- Excellent accounting of John Harrison and his H1, H2, H3 Achievements
- Harrison's precision pendulum-clock No. 2, 1727, on the BBC's "A History of the World" website
- Leeds Museums and Galleries "Secret Life of Objects" blog, John Harrison's precision pendulum-clock No. 2
- Booknotes interview with Dava Sobel on Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time, January 17, 1999.
- Account of John Harrison and his chronometer at Cambridge Digital Library
- Building an Impossible Clock Shayla Love, Jan 19, 2016, The Atlantic
- Karya John Harrison di LibriVox (buku suara domain umum)
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Wikimedia Commons memiliki media mengenai John Harrison. |