| RefNo | EC/1889/07 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XI, 162 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Clark, Josiah Latimer: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Citation | Latimer Clark
Past President of the Institution of Electrical Engineers. Author of "Description of the Britannia and Conway Tubular Bridges", chapter on "Tides of the Menai Straits" in Edwin Clark's book on the Britannia & Conway Bridges, "Elementary Treatise on Electrical Measurement", and, jointly with R Sabine, "Electrical Tables and Formulae". Author of various papers on Electric Measurement, and on various branches of Engineering Science, published in the Proceedings of the British Association, the Government Report on Submarine Cables, and the Engineering Journals. Introduced a standard voltaic cell of great importance, and value for promoting accurate measurement of electric potentials, and presented a paper on this subject to the Royal Society, which was read June 19, 1873. From 1848 to 1851 was resident Assistant Engineer at the Britannia Tubular Bridge, Menai, under the late Robert Stephenson. In 1851 became Engineer to the Electric and International Telegraph Company, and remained in this service for 20 years; part of the time as Engineer-in-Chief. Made important observations on the passage of electricity through long underground lines, of which the results were the subject of Faraday's Bakerian Lecture of 1854, and are given in his "Experimental Researches" with Faraday's own experimentsand theory. In 1854 introduced the system of transmitting messages through "pneumatic-despatch tubes" in the Electric Telegraph Company's service: the system is continued in the Postal Telegraph system of the Government, having been found admirably successful and useful. |
| Proposers | From General Knowledge: J T Bottomley; John G McKendrick; James Thomson; J J Thomson; R T Glazebrook
From Personal Knowledge: William Thomson; R Grant; J Hopkinson; W E Ayrton; John Perry; F A Abel; Warren de la Rue; G J Symons; D E Hughes |
| Extent | 1 sheet |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA6970 | Clark; Josiah Latimer (1822 - 1898) | 1822 - 1898 |