Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 916
Book Description
The Builder
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 916
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 916
Book Description
The Gentleman's Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Early English newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Early English newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Nature
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
Knowledge
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The Athenaeum
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
The Engineer
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1078
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1078
Book Description
A Victorian Scientist and Engineer
Author: Gillian Cookson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351788361
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
This title was first published in 2000: In a life of only 52 years, Fleeming Jenkin established his reputation as a pioneer in the new world of electrical engineering, known for his work on undersea telegraphs and later on the electrical transportation system known as telpherage. Equally at ease in the realms of theory and practice, from 1850 until his death in 1885 Jenkin engaged in every field of Victorian engineering. As a young adult he worked on intercontinental submarine telegraphy, the cutting edge technology of its day which was inextricably bound to the new science of electricity. Jenkin was both a scientist and an engineer, a prototype of the modern experimental research engineer. He was also a distinguished academic, professor of engineering in the University of Edinburgh, admired as an inspired and innovative teacher, and for his interest in the philosophical tenets underpinning his subject. Yet in spite of his influence as an early electrical engineer and his other intellectual achievements, despite the celebrity of his associates - Robert Louis Stevenson, Mrs Gaskell and leading engineers of the day were among his close friends - and the way that submarine telegraphs seized the Victorian popular imagination, Jenkin himself has remained an obscure figure. He deserves to be better known. The story of Jenkin is of a life lived to the full. It illuminates many aspects of Victorian intellectual society, and of the organisation of science and engineering in his time. The central purpose of this biography is to show Jenkin’s achievements in engineering and in other fields, and to judge his significance in these diverse activities.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351788361
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
This title was first published in 2000: In a life of only 52 years, Fleeming Jenkin established his reputation as a pioneer in the new world of electrical engineering, known for his work on undersea telegraphs and later on the electrical transportation system known as telpherage. Equally at ease in the realms of theory and practice, from 1850 until his death in 1885 Jenkin engaged in every field of Victorian engineering. As a young adult he worked on intercontinental submarine telegraphy, the cutting edge technology of its day which was inextricably bound to the new science of electricity. Jenkin was both a scientist and an engineer, a prototype of the modern experimental research engineer. He was also a distinguished academic, professor of engineering in the University of Edinburgh, admired as an inspired and innovative teacher, and for his interest in the philosophical tenets underpinning his subject. Yet in spite of his influence as an early electrical engineer and his other intellectual achievements, despite the celebrity of his associates - Robert Louis Stevenson, Mrs Gaskell and leading engineers of the day were among his close friends - and the way that submarine telegraphs seized the Victorian popular imagination, Jenkin himself has remained an obscure figure. He deserves to be better known. The story of Jenkin is of a life lived to the full. It illuminates many aspects of Victorian intellectual society, and of the organisation of science and engineering in his time. The central purpose of this biography is to show Jenkin’s achievements in engineering and in other fields, and to judge his significance in these diverse activities.
London's Turning
Author: Michael J. Rustin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351921436
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The Thames Gateway plan is the largest and most complex project of urban regeneration ever undertaken in the United Kingdom. This book provides a comprehensive overview and critique of the Thames Gateway plan, but at the same time it uses the plan as a lens through which to look at a series of important questions of social theory, urban policy and governmental practice. It examines the impact of urban planning and demographic change on East London's material and social environment, including new forms of ethnic gentrification, the development of the eastern hinterlands, shifting patterns of migration between city and country, the role of new policies in regulating housing provision and the attempt to create new cultural hubs downriver. It also looks at issues of governance and accountability, the tension between public and private interests, and the immediate and longer term prospects for the Thames Gateway project both in relation to the 'Olympics effect' and the growth of new forms of regionalism.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351921436
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The Thames Gateway plan is the largest and most complex project of urban regeneration ever undertaken in the United Kingdom. This book provides a comprehensive overview and critique of the Thames Gateway plan, but at the same time it uses the plan as a lens through which to look at a series of important questions of social theory, urban policy and governmental practice. It examines the impact of urban planning and demographic change on East London's material and social environment, including new forms of ethnic gentrification, the development of the eastern hinterlands, shifting patterns of migration between city and country, the role of new policies in regulating housing provision and the attempt to create new cultural hubs downriver. It also looks at issues of governance and accountability, the tension between public and private interests, and the immediate and longer term prospects for the Thames Gateway project both in relation to the 'Olympics effect' and the growth of new forms of regionalism.