Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin

by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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9781604506686

ISBN10:

1604506687

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Paperback

Pub. Date:

4/30/2009

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Lightning Source Inc

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Summary

Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin (1833 - 1885) was Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh, remarkable for his versatility. Known to the world as the inventor of telpherage, he was an electrician and cable engineer, a lecturer, linguist, critic, actor, dramatist and artist. His descendants include the Tory MPs Patrick Jenkin and Bernard Jenkin.