Education
McGill University.
McGill University.
Born in Lawrence, Kansas to Robert Charles and Angeline Virginia, Harrington obtained his Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science and Civil Engineering from the University of Kansas in the 1890s. Later at McGill University he obtained another Bachelor of Science in 1906, and his Mississippi in 1908. Harrington became known for inventing "three types of vertical lift bridges, and designed many important structures, and has written various published addresses.
He has also designed some thirty million dollars worth of machinery and bridges." Harrington was resident of Kansas City.
In 1922 he was elected president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for the year 1922-1923.
Under Herbert Hoover presidency (1929–1933), he was member of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.