biography
| name: |
Rankine, William (John Macquorn)
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pronunciation:
[rangkin]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1820–72)
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| biography:
| Engineer and scientist, born in Edinburgh, EC Scotland, UK. In 1855 he was appointed to the chair of engineering at Glasgow. Elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1853, his works on the steam engine, machinery, shipbuilding, and applied mechanics became standard textbooks. He also did much for the new science of thermodynamics and the theories of elasticity and of waves. |
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