page_title: James Hartness
section_title: Affiliations, degrees, and medals
hierarchical_section_title: James Hartness / Affiliations, degrees, and medals
caption_attribution_description: English: James Hartness with Charles Lindbergh at Springfield, Vermont's airport.
context_page_description: James Hartness was an American inventor; a mechanical engineer; an entrepreneur who mentored other inventors to develop their machine tool products and create a thriving industrial center in southeastern Vermont; an amateur astronomer who fostered the construction of telescopes by amateurs in his town; an early aviator who built one of Vermont's first airports; and the 58th Governor of Vermont from 1921 to 1923.
context_section_description: Hartness was an active member of the following engineering, scientific, and arts societies:
  American Society of Mechanical Engineers, which elected him president in Fall 1913 to serve the 1914–1915 term
  American Engineering Council (formerly the Federated American Engineering Societies), which elected him president in 1924 to serve the following two-year term
  Society of Automotive Engineers
  British Institution of Mechanical Engineers
  American Association for the Advancement of Science (Fellow)
  British Royal Aeronautical Society (Fellow)
  American Astronomical Society (Member)
  British Royal Astronomical Society (Member)
  British Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts (Member)
  Aero Club of America
  Aero Club of Vermont
  His life achievements were recognized with honorary degrees from the University of Vermont (ME in 1910 and LLD in 1920) and Yale University (MA in 1914). The Franklin Institute awarded Hartness the Edward Longstreth Medal in 1921, recognizing his invention of the Hartness screw thread comparator. In the same year the American Philosophical Society and the City Trusts of Philadelphia awarded the John Scott Medal to Hartness for the flat turret lathe, citing its usefulness in making artillery.
caption: James Hartness with Charles Lindbergh at Springfield, Vermont's airport in July, 1927. Image courtesy of Springfield Art & Historical Society.
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