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See also:RANKINE, 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:JOHN MACQUORN (182o-1872) , Scottish engineer and physicist, was See also:born at See also:Edinburgh on the 5th of See also:July 182o, and completed his See also:education in its university. He was trained as an engineer under See also:Sir J. B. See also:Macneill, working chiefly on surveys, harbours and railroads, and was appointed in 1855 to the See also:chair of See also:civil See also:engineering in See also:Glasgow, vacant by the resignation of See also:Lewis See also:Gordon, whose See also:work he had undertaken during the previous session. He was a voluminous writer on subjects directly connected with his chair, and, besides contributing almost weekly to the, technical See also:journals, such as the Engineer, brought out a See also:series of See also:standard textbooks on Civil Engineering, The See also:Steam-See also:Engine and other See also:Prime See also:Movers, Machinery and Millwork, and Applied See also:Mechanics, which have passed through many See also:editions, and have contributed greatly to the See also:advancement of the subjects with which they See also:deal. To these must be added his elaborate See also:treatise on See also:Shipbuilding, Theoretical and See also:Practical. These writings, however, corresponded to but one phase of Rankine's immense See also:energy and many-sided See also:character. He was an enthusiastic and most useful See also:leader of the volunteer See also:movement from its beginning, and a writer, composer and See also:singer of humorous and patriotic songs, some of which, as " The Three See also:Foot See also:Rule " and " They never shall have See also:Gibraltar," became well known far beyond the circle of his acquaintance. Rankine was the earliest of the three founders of the See also:modern See also:science of See also:Thermodynamics (q.v.) on the bases laid by Sadi See also:Carnot and J. P. See also:Joule respectively, and the author of the first formal treatise on the subject. His contributions to the theories of See also:Elasticity and of Waves See also:rank high among modern developments of mathematical physics, although they are See also:mere See also:units among the 150 scientific papers attached to his name in the Royal Society's See also:Catalogue. The more important of these were collected and reprinted in a handsome See also:volume (Rankine's Scientific Papers, See also:London, 1881), which contains a memoir of the author by Prof. P. G. See also:Tait. Rankine died at Glasgow on the 24th of See also:December 1872.
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