Papers of William John Macquorn Rankine, 1820-1872, engineer and Regius Professor of Civil Engineering and Mechanics, University of Glasgow, Scotland 1855-1956
Related Entities
There are 2 Entities related to this resource.
University of Glasgow (1451- : Glasgow, Scotland)
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63p2sg6 (corporateBody)
These are Economic History lecture notes, possibly a lecturer's own notes. There are 6 notebooks within a slipcase. On the slipcase is written in pencil "Dr James Cunnison? Alec Macfie?" The identification of the author of these notes is not certain. There is one letter within volume 6 addressed to Dr Cunnison, but without a comparison of handwriting it has not possible to assign these notes to Dr Cunnison. References within the notes would indicate that they were written after 1924. ...
Rankine, William John Macquorn, 1820-1872
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vq3vmc (person)
Civil engineer and physicist. Born in Edinburgh and studied at the university there. He then worked as an engineer on various railway projects in Scotland and Ireland, and from 1844 to 1848 was employed by the Caledonian Railway Co. About 1848 he commenced the researches on molecular physics which constitute his claim to fame in the scientific domain. His work on thermodynamics mirrored similar ideas being put forward by his contemporaries, William Thompson (Lord Kelvin) and Clausius. He was app...
