Image description: Blue plaque commemorating clockmaker John Harrison, Red Lion Square, London.

Plaque reads: John Harrison 1693 - 1776 inventor of the Marine Chronometer lived and died in a house on this site.

Harrison has achieved recent, more widespread fame due to Dava Sobel's book Longitude (1998).

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London Image: Blue Plaque for John Harrison, Inventor of Marine Chronometer

 

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