Editing John Harrison (section)

==Death and memorials ==
[[File:Johnharrisonstatue.jpg|thumb|300x300px|Bronze statue of John Harrison in [[Barrow upon Humber]], Lincolnshire|left]]
[[File:John Harrison tombstone.jpg|thumb|180x180px|Harrison's tomb at [[St John-at-Hampstead]]]]
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Harrison died on 24 March 1776, at the age of eighty-two, just shy of his eighty-third birthday.<ref name="britannica.com"/> He was buried in the graveyard of [[St John-at-Hampstead|St John's Church, Hampstead]], in north London, along with his second wife Elizabeth and later their son William. His tomb was restored in 1879 by the [[Worshipful Company of Clockmakers]], even though Harrison had never been a member of the Company.

Harrison's last home was 12 [[Red Lion Square]] in the [[Holborn]] district of London.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.modernistbritain.co.uk/post/building/Summit+House/|title=Summit House, London|website=Modernist Britain|language=en|access-date=2018-04-03|quote=On the corner of Dane Street there is a Blue Plaque dedicated to John Harrison (1693–1776)}}</ref> There is a [[blue plaque]] dedicated to Harrison on the wall of Summit House, a 1925 modernist office block, on the south side of the square. A memorial tablet to Harrison was unveiled in [[Westminster Abbey]] on 24 March 2006, finally recognising him as a worthy companion to his friend [[George Graham (clockmaker)|George Graham]] and [[Thomas Tompion]], 'The Father of English Watchmaking', who are both buried in the Abbey. The memorial shows a [[meridian (geography)|meridian]] line (line of constant longitude) in two metals to highlight Harrison's most widespread invention, the bimetallic strip thermometer. The strip is engraved with its own longitude of 0 degrees, 7 minutes and 35 seconds West.

The [[Corpus Clock]] in [[Cambridge]], unveiled in 2008, is a homage by the designer to Harrison's work but is of an electromechanical design. In appearance it features Harrison's [[grasshopper escapement]], the 'pallet frame' being sculpted to resemble an actual grasshopper. This is the clock's defining feature.<!-- It should be pointed out that Harrison did not use the term 'grasshopper escapement'. The term appears first in ''The Horological Journal'' in the late 19th century. -->

In 2014, [[Northern Rail]] named diesel railcar [[British Rail Class 153|153316]] as the ''John 'Longitude' Harrison''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.scunthorpetelegraph.co.uk/Train-given-clock-maker-John/story-21004026-detail/story.html|title=Train naming tribute to world famous inventor John Harrison|work=Scunthorpe Telegraph|date=26 April 2014|access-date=6 March 2015|archive-date=2 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402163809/http://www.scunthorpetelegraph.co.uk/Train-given-clock-maker-John/story-21004026-detail/story.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.northernrail.org/news/7460|title=Northern Honours Inventor John Harrison|work=northernrail.org/news|date=27 April 2014|access-date=6 March 2015}}</ref>

On 3 April 2018, [[Google]] celebrated his 325th birthday by making a [[Google Doodle]] for its homepage.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://doodles.google/doodle/john-harrisons-325th-birthday/|title=John Harrison's 325th Birthday|website=www.google.com}}</ref>

In February 2020, a bronze statue of John Harrison was unveiled in [[Barrow upon Humber]]. The statue was created by sculptor [[Marcus Cornish]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/news/local-news/statue-north-lincolnshire-inventor-john-3999760|title=Statue of North Lincolnshire inventor John Harrison now on display in his home village|publisher=[[Grimsby Telegraph]]|date=31 March 2020|last=Waller|first=Jamie|access-date=9 December 2021}}</ref>