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RefNoEC/1887/05
Previous numbersCert XI, 120
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TitleDouglass, Sir James Nicholas: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CitationCivil and Mechanical Engineer. Engineer-in-Chief to the Hon Corporation of Trinity House. Is a Member of the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers and a Member of the Council of the Inst Civ Eng. Member Inst Mech Eng. Has been attached to coast signalling since 1847, and the development of electricity for coast lighting since 1862. Has designed and erected several rock lighthouses on the coasts of this country and abroad; some of these works being of exceptional difficulty, for which he received on two occasions a testimonial from the Hon Corporation of Trinity House. He designed and erected the new Eddystone Lighthouse. On the completion of this work he received the honour of knighthood. He has very materially improved the optical apparatus, lamps. lanterns, and fog-signal apparatus of lighthouses and light-vessels. Is the author of several papers. For one on 'The Wolf Rock Lighthouse,' and another on 'The Electric Light applied to Lighthouse Illumination' (Proc Inst Civ eng, vols xxx and lvii), he received the Telford and Watt Gold Medals of the Institution of Civil Engineers.
ProposersFrom Personal Knowledge: Henry Bessemer; W H Preece; F J Bramwell; T Hawksley; William Pole; John Hawkshaw; W Chandler Roberts; Edward J Reed; J Hopkinson; James Glaisher; W G Adams; A Vernon Harcourt; F L MClintock; Erasmus Ommanney
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Douglass, Sir James Nicholas: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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NA6253Douglass; Sir; James Nicholas (1826 - 1898)1826 - 1898
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