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See also:CLARK, See also:JOSIAH See also:LATIMER (1822—1898) , See also:English engineer and electrician, was See also:born on the loth of See also:March 1822 at See also:Great See also:Marlow, Bucks. His first See also:interest was in chemical manufacturing, but in 1848 he became assistant engineer at the Menai Straits See also:bridge under his See also:elder See also:brother See also:Edwin (1814-1894), the inventor of the Clark See also:hydraulic lift graving See also:dock. Two years later, when his brother was appointed engineer to the Electric See also:Telegraph See also:Company, he again acted as his assistant, and subsequently succeeded him as See also:chief engineer. In 1854 he took out a patent " for conveying letters or parcels between places by the pressure of See also:air and vacuum," and later was concerned in the construction of a large pneumatic despatch See also:tube between the See also:general See also:post See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office and Euston station, See also:London. About the same See also:period he was engaged in experimental researches on the See also:propagation of the electric current in submarine cables, on which he published a pamphlet in 1855, and in 1859 he was a member of the See also:committee which was appointed by the See also:government to consider the numerous failures of submarine See also:cable enterprises. Latimer Clark paid much See also:attention to the subject of See also:electrical measurement, and besides designing various improvements in method and apparatus and inventing the Clark See also:standard See also:cell, he took a leading See also:part in the See also:movement for the systematization of electrical See also:standards, which was inaugurated by the See also:paper which he and See also:Sir
C. T. See also:Bright read on the question before the See also:British Association in 1861. With Bright also he devised improvements in the insulation of submarine cables. In the later part of his See also:life he was a member of several firms engaged in laying submarine cables, in manufacturing electrical appliances, and in hydraulic See also:engineering. He died in London on the 3oth of See also:October 1898. Besides professional papers, he published an Elementary See also:Treatise on Electrical Measurement (1868), together with two books on astronomical subjects, and a memoir of Sir W. F. See also:Cooke.
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