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
Just go ahead and do the extension and then take your time to find the deductions.
If the courts are making the decisions, it matters who the judge is and, of course, people are concerned with what is the bottom line.
I'll ride it out, ... The way I've always done.
If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.
I didn't feel that running away would change anything but when the roof of the garage started coming off I thought it was time to go.
I'm not at liberty to say, except that he appears to be a victim.
The conditions of bond state you cannot go out and commit other crimes. That's a no-brainer, but sometimes, the court has to tell people that,
I've never been to the Himalayas, and I'm not really interested in them. I'm more interested in a dirty old quarry in Lancashire, and by god, they can be dirty.
Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over world-building.
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.
Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.
A good ground rule for writing in any genre is, start with a form, then undermine its confidence in itself. Ask what it's afraid of, what it's trying to hide - then write that.
Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.
Egnaro is a secret known to everyone but yourself. It is a country or a city to which you have never been; it is an unknown language. At the same time it is like being cuckolded, or plotted against. It is part of the universe of events which will never wholly reveal itself to you: a conspiracy the barest outline of which, once visible, will gall you forever.