| RefNo | EC/1922/07 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XIII, 220; A04138 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Lanchester, Frederick William: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Description | Date stamp on reverse. Citation typed |
| Citation | Spent 29 years in science and practice of Internal Combustion Engineering. An investigator, inventor, and designer in petrol engines, motor cars, and aeroplanes. Principal papers: - 'The Pendulum Accelerometer' (Physical Soc, 1905); 'Power of Petrol Motor in Relation to Bore, Stroke and Weight' (InstAE, 1907); 'Worm Gear' (Inst Automobile Engrs, 1914); 'Engine Balancing' (ibid); 'The Flying Machine' (Inst Civil Engrs, 1914); 'Aerofoil and Screw Propeller' (Inst Auto Engrs, 1915); 'Cylinder Cooling of Petrol Engines' (ibid, 1915); 'Theory of Propulsion and Propeller' (Inst Naval Architects, 1915). Books: 'Aerial Flight,' Vol I; 'Aero-dynamics,' Vol II; 'Aerodonetics,' Constable, 1907. Made experiments on the laws of flight in 1894. |
| Proposers | Dugald Clerk; W E Dalby; J Swinburne; C V Boys; Charles A Parsons; Oliver Lodge; T E Stanton; T Mather; Herbert Jackson; A A C Swinton |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA1157 | Lanchester; Frederick William (1868 - 1946) | 1868 - 1946 |