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See also:HODGKINSON, See also:EATON (1759-1861) , See also:English engineer, the son of a See also:farmer, was See also:born at Anderton near See also:Northwich, See also:Cheshire, on the 26th of See also:February 1789. After attending school at Northwich, he began to help his widowed See also:mother on the See also:farm, but to See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape from that uncongenial occupation he persuaded her in 1811 to remove to See also:Manchester and start a See also:pawnbroking business. There he made the acquaintance of See also:John See also:Dalton, and began those inquiries into the strength of materials which formed the See also:work of his See also:life. He was associated with See also:Sir See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Fairbairn in an important See also:series of experiments on See also:cast See also:iron, and his help was sought by See also:Robert See also:Stephenson in regard to the forms and dimensions of the tubes for the Britannia See also:bridge. A See also:paper which he communicated to the Royal Society on" Experimental Researches on the Strength of Pillars of Cast Iron and other Materials," in 1840 gained him a Royal See also:medal in 1841, and he was also elected a See also:fellow. In 1847 he was appointed See also:professor of the mechanicalprinciples of See also:engineering in University See also:College, See also:London, and at the same See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he was employed as a member of the Royal See also:Commission appointed to inquire into the application of iron to railway structures. In 1848 he was chosen See also:president of the Manchester Philosophical Society, of which he had been a member since 1826, and to which, both previously and subsequently, he contributed many of the more important results of his discoveries. For several years he took an active See also:part in the discussions of the Institution of See also:Civil See also:Engineers, of which he was elected an honorary member in 1851. He died at Eaglesfield See also:House, near Manchester, on the 18th of See also:June 1861.
End of Article: HODGKINSON, EATON (1759-1861)
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