| RefNo | EC/1894/18 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XI, 268 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Smith, Frederick John: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Citation | Clergy of the Church of England. Millard Lecturer in Experimental Mechanics, Trinity College, Oxford. Distinguished for his researches in practical mechanics and physics, and the invention of important dynamometric and integrating instruments; also of the chronograph - registering graphically periods of time from 0.00005 sec to 1.0 sec - now used in measurement of the flight of projectiles and in physiological research. Author of numerous papers, among which may be mentioned: - 'An Experimental Investigation of the circumstances under which a Change of the Velocity in the Propagation of the Ignition of an Explosive Gaseous Mixture takes place in Closed and Open Vessels. Part I - Chronographic Measurements ' (Proc Roy Soc, vol xlv, 1889); 'Description of Dynamometer and Integrator for measuring the work done in Driving Dynamos and other machines' (Electrician, 1881); 'Ergometer or work measuring machine' (Phil Mag, vol xv, 1883, and Nature, vol xxx); 'A new form of Electric Chronograph' (Phil Mag, vol xxix, 1890); 'On some new Methods of investigating the Points of Recalescence in Steel and iron' (ibid, vol xxxi, 1891); 'On some of the Effects of Magnetism on Rods of Iron, Nickel, and other Metals which have received a Permanent Torsional Set' (ibid, vol xxxii, 1891). |
| Proposers | From General Knowledge: G H Darwin
From Personal Knowledge: Bartholomew Price; A Vernon Harcourt; Henry Acland; William Odling; R B Clifton; J Burdon Sanderson; William Esson; Harold B Dixon; C V Boys; Arthur W Rucker; Oliver J Lodge; Silvanus P Thompson; W E Ayrton; [Charles Pritchard]; Edward B Poulton; Edward B Tylor; E Ray Lankester; E J Stone; E B Elliott |
| Extent | 1 sheet |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA2211 | Smith; Frederick John (1848 - 1911) | 1848 - 1911 |