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Fleeming Jenkin - Professor of Engineering
Fleeming Jenkin was born on March 25, 1833, in Dungeness, United Kingdom. His mother is Henrietta Camilla Jenkin, and his father Charles Jenkin. His mother was an accomplished English novelist. For his father, he was a naval officer. When Fleeming was a young boy, he went to school in Edinburgh. From 1846 -1851, Fleeming lived in Frankfurt, Paris due to the poor income circumstances with his family. -
Fleeming Jenkin's earing his M.A
In 1851, he finally earned his Master's degree from the University of Genoa. Then for the next 10 years, Fleeming has worked with engineering firms that were in charge of designing and manufacturing submarine telegraph cables. As well as equipment that would effectively work with the cables. -
Fleeming Jenkin and the Committee on Electrical Standards
After working with engineering firms for 10 years, Fleeming Jenkin's has formed a consulting engineering group in London in 1861. During that same year, Fleeming's really good friend William Thomson has created the Committee of Electrical Standards of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. -
Establishment of Ohm, unit of resistance
During the years of 1862 and 1869, Fleeming and the Committee all participated in electrical science, with experiments. Those experiments included the writing and even editing of six reports. Then in 1867, the absolute unit of resistance called "Ohm" was created. Fleeming Jenkin, Thomson, James Clerk Maxwell, Carey Foster, Latimer Clark, and Charles Wheatstone were all responsible for establishing "Ohm" as a unit of electrical resistance. -
Fleeming Jenkin against unsanitary plumbing and the promotion of automated electric transport
During and after 1876, a lot has been going for Fleeming Jenkin. He has executed a sturdy campaign against unsanitary plumbing. He also invented and promoted an automatic method of electric transport for goods, a.k.a "telpherage". Before he was able to complete his work with the automatic method of electric transport, he passed away. After his death, the construction of the telpher line on his system has begun. -
Vice- President of the Royal Society
The Royal Society (London) and Royal Society (Edinburg) has elected Fleeming Jenkin to join. By 1879, he was elected to be the Vice- President. To give a little feedback on what the Royal Society is. It is a society that is dedicated to finding experimental evidence on a wide variety of scientific subjects. It is an independent body of scientists that encourages research. -
The passing of Fleeming Jenkin
June 12th, 1885 is when Fleeming Jenkin has passed away. Before his passing, Fleeming was a professor of engineering at a university college in London and at the University of Edinburgh.
