Fleeming Jenkin

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Fleeming Jenkin is affiliated with the following schools: University College London, University of Edinburgh

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Fleeming Jenkin

Engineering

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Electrical Engineering

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Applied Physics

#3949

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According to Wikipedia, Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin FRS FRSE LLD was Regius Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh, remarkable for his versatility. Known to the world as the inventor of the cable car or telpherage, he was an electrician and cable engineer, economist, lecturer, linguist, critic, actor, dramatist and artist. His descendants include the engineer Charles Frewen Jenkin and through him the Conservative MPs Patrick, Lord Jenkin of Roding and Bernard Jenkin.

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Fleeming Jenkin's Published Works

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3. On the Principles which regulate the Incidence of Taxes. (45)
XI.—On the Practical Application of Reciprocal Figures to the Calculation of Strains on Framework (11)
XXXII.—On the Harmonic Analysis of certain Vowel Sounds (6)
The Phonograph and Vowel Theories (1878) (5)
On Sanitary Inspection (1878) (4)
The Phonograph and Vowel Sounds (1878) (4)
I.—On the Application of Graphic Methods to the Determination of the Efficiency of Machinery (2)
Papers, literary, scientific, etc. / edited by Sidney Colvin and J.A. Ewing, with a memoir by Robert Louis Stevenson. (2)
Helmholtz's Vowel Theory and the Phonograph (1878) (2)
On Friction between Surfaces Moving at Low Speeds. [Abstract] (1)
Papers, literary, scientific, & c. by the late Fleeming Jenkin. Edited by Sidney Colvin, M. A., and J. A. Ewing, F. R. S. With a memoir by Robert Louis Stevenson. (1)
Cantor lectures.—On submarine telegraphy (1866) (0)
The Phonograph and Vowel Sounds (0)
Our Book Shelf (0)
6. On the Wave-Forms of Articulate Sounds. (0)
Novel Telegraphy – Electrification of an Island (1870) (0)
On the construction and submersion of submarine telegraph cables (0)
2. On the Wave Forms of the Vowel Sounds produced by the Apparatus exhibited by Professor Crum Brown. (0)
II. On the insulating properties of gutta percha (0)
XXIX.—On the Application of Graphic Methods to the Determination of the Efficiency of Machinery (0)
1. On the Wheeling of Birds (0)
2. On the Wave Forms of Articulate Sounds. (0)
On the Construction of Submarine Telegraph Cables (1862) (0)
4. On a Stable and Flexible Arch. (0)
3. Obituary Notice of Mr R. W. Thomson (0)
Reports of the Committee on Electrical Standards appointed by the British Association for the Advancement of Science, reprinted by permission of the council (0)
Northern Sanitary Association, Liverpool (1882) (0)
XXXVIII. Experimental researches on the transmission of electric signals through submarine cables.─Part I. Laws of transmission through various lengths of one cable (0)
A method of testing short lengths of highly insulated wire in submarine cables (0)
1. The application of the Graphic Method to the determination of the efficiency of a direct-acting Steam-Engine (0)
The Phonograph (0)
Remarks on "Measuring-instruments used in electric lighting and transmission of power" (0)
5. Remarks on the Phonograph. (0)

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