| Authorised form of name | Clark; Josiah Latimer (1822 - 1898) |
| Other forms of name | Latimer |
| Dates | 1822 - 1898 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England |
| Date of birth | 10 March 1822 |
| Place of death | 31 The Grove, Boltons, London |
| Date of death | 30 October 1898 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial:
Kensington parochial cemetery, Hanwell |
| Occupation | Civil engineer |
| Research field | Technology |
| Activity | Career:
Began working as a Chemist; worked in a firm of chemical manufacturers, Dublin; took up railway surveying (c 1847); Engineer under his brother Edwin Clark, Menai Straits bridge (1848); Chief Engineer, Electric and International Telegraph Company (1860-1870); partner in the firm Clark, Ford and Taylor, laying cable in different parts of the world; invented the 'double cap invert' insulator; constructed the standard voltaic battery known as the 'Clark cell' (1873)
Memberships:
FRAS; FRGS
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 06/06/1889 |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/29090020 |
| Code | NA6970 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1889/07 | Clark, Josiah Latimer: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/Maull/000854 | Clark, Josiah Latimer | nd |
| NLB/3/656 | Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 2 August 1889 |
| NLB/17/440 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 1 November 1898 |
| RR/7/231 | Letter from James Thomson Bottomley, on a paper 'On a standard voltaic battery' by Latimer Clark | 26 March 1873 |
| AP/54/4/3 | Unpublished diagram, circuit with galvanometer by Josiah Latimer Clark | 1872 |
| RR/7/162 | Referee's report by James Clerk Maxwell, on a paper 'On a voltaic standard of electromotive force' by Josiah Latimer Clark | 1872 |
| RR/7/232 | Referee's report by Charles Wheatstone, on a paper 'On a standard voltaic battery' by Latimer Clark | 1 July 1873 |
| RR/7/161 | Referee's report by Charles Wheatstone, on a paper 'On a voltaic standard of electromotive force' by Josiah Latimer Clark | 3 September 1872 |
| AP/54/4/2 | Diagram, circuit with galvanometer and rheostat by Josiah Latimer Clark | 1872 |
| AP/54/4/1 | Unpublished manuscript, 'On a voltaic standard of electromotive force' by [Josiah] Latimer Clark | 1872 |
| AP/54/4/6 | Unpublished diagram, circuit with galvanometer and rheostat by Josiah Latimer Clark | 1872 |
| AP/54/4 | Unpublished paper, 'On a voltaic standard of electromotive force' by [Josiah] Latimer Clark | 1872 |
| MC/8 | Volume 8 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1867-1869 |
| AP/54/4/7 | Unpublished figure, conditions of equilibrium by Josiah Latimer Clark | 1872 |
| PP/10/17 | Paper, 'On the limiting distance of speech by telephone' by W H [William Henry] Preece | 1887 |