| Authorised form of name | Jenkin; Henry Charles Fleeming (1833 - 1885); engineer and electrician |
| Dates | 1833 - 1885 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Dungeness, Kent, England |
| Date of birth | 25 March 1833 |
| Place of death | Edinburgh |
| Date of death | 12 June 1885 |
| Occupation | Civil engineer |
| Research field | Engineering |
| Activity | Education:
Edinburgh Academy; Genoa. MA
Career:
Met James Clerk Maxwell (FRS 1861) at school; apprenticed at the engineering works of Sir William Fairbairn (FRS 1850) (1851), Manchester, and to the works of John Penn (FRS 1859), Greenwich; experimented on the resistance and insulation of electric cables; fitted electric cables (1858-1873); Professor of Engineering, University College, London (1865); Professor of Engineering, University of Edinburgh (1868-1885); died of blood poisoning after an operation on his foot
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 01/06/1865 |
| Relationships | Son of Charles Jenkin, RN, and his wife Henrietta Camilla, novelist; married (1859) Anne, daughter of Alfred Austin; father of Charles Frewen Jenkin (FRS 1931) |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1885 vol 39 pp i-iii signed by W T
References:
T M Charlton, 'Maxwell, Jenkin and Cotterill and the Theory of Statically-Indeterminate Structures' in NR 1971 vol 26 pp 233-246
Graeme Gooday, 'A Victorian scientist and engineer', review of Gillian Cookson and Colin Hempstead, 'Fleeming Jenkin and the birth of electrical engineering' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 265-266 |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/46922041 |
| Code | NA7979 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1865/10 | Jenkin, Henry Charles Fleeming: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/4/141 | Letter from Charles Vincent Walker, on a paper 'On the insulating properties of gutta percha' by Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin | 20 June 1860 |
| RR/7/248 | Referee's report by Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin, on a paper 'Determination of the number of electrostatic units in the electromagnetic unit made in the Physical Laboratory of Glasgow University' by Dugald Kichan | 30 May 1873 |
| RR/7/94 | Referee's report by Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin, on a paper 'Measurements of specific inductive capacity of dielectrics, in the physical laboratory of the University of Glasgow' by John C Gibson and Thomas Barclay | 29 June 1871 |
| RR/8/41 | Referee's report by William Pole, on a paper 'On friction between surfaces moving at low speeds' by Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin and James Alfred Ewing | 14 May 1877 |
| RR/9/91 | Referee's report by Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin, on a paper 'The influence of stress and strain on the action of physical forces' by Herbert Tomlinson | 22 March 1882 |
| RR/8/171 | Referee's report by Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin, on a paper 'On the determination of the rate of vibration of tuning-forks' by Herbert McLeod and George Sydenham Clarke | 10 Jue 1879 |
| RR/8/351 | Referee's report by Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin, on a paper 'On the friction of water against solid surfaces of different degrees of roughness' by William Cawthorne Unwin | 20 February 1881 |
| RR/4/139 | Referee's report by Charles Vincent Walker, on a paper 'On the insulating properties of gutta percha' by Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin | 12 July 1860 |
| RR/7/142 | Referee's report by Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin, on a paper 'Polarization of metallic surfaces in aqueous solutions. On a new method of obtaining electricity from mechanical force, and certain relations between electrostatic induction and the decomposition of water' by Cromwell Fleetwood Varley | 21 February 1871 |
| MS/427/156 | Copy letter from [Michael] Foster, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Henry Charles] Fleeming Jenkins and Dr. [John] Hopkinson | 21 January 1882 |
| MS/427/160 | Copy letter from [Michael] Foster, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lieut-Col. [John] Donnelly. | 3 February 1882 |
| RR/8/40 | Referee's report by Charles Watkins Merrifield, on a paper 'On friction between surfaces moving at low speeds' by Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin and James Alfred Ewing | 30 April 1877 |
| PT/67/6 | Paper, 'Experimental researches on the transmission of electric signals through submarine cables' by [Henry Charles] Fleeming Jenkin | [1862] |
| RR/6/180 | Referee's report by Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin, on a paper 'On a method of making a direct comparison of electrostatic with electromagnetic force; with a note on the electromagnetic theory of light' by James Clerk Maxwell | 16 July 1868 |
| PT/67/6/4 | Plate, 'Arrival curve for 1006 knots in 4 coils and 2192 knots in 10 coils' by unknown artist | [1862] |
| PT/67/6/6 | Plate, 'Curve of amplitudes' by unknown artist | [1862] |
| PT/67/6/3 | Plate, connections used in Jenkin's apparatus and arrival curves for various currents by unknown artist | [1862] |
| RR/5/126 | Referee's report by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, on a paper 'Experimental researches on the transmission of electric signals through submarine cables.-Part I. Laws of transmission through various lengths of one cable' by Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin | 1 May 1862 |
| PT/67/6/2 | Plate, transmission apparatus and variations of received current by unknown artist | [1862] |
| PT/67/6/1 | Manuscript, 'Experimental researches on the transmission of electric signals through submarine cables' by [Henry Charles] Fleeming Jenkin | [1862] |
| MC/6 | Volume 6 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1859-1863 |
| MC/6/306 | Letter from [Henry Charles] Fleeming Jenkin, 6 Duke Street, Adelphi, to Professor G G [George Gabriel] Stokes, Lensfield Cottage, Cambridge | 27 February 1863 |
| RR/5/127 | Referee's report by Augustus Matthiessen, on a paper 'Experimental researches on the transmission of electric signals through submarine cables.-Part I. Laws of transmission through various lengths of one cable' by Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin | 16 July 1862 |
| MC/10 | Volume 10 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | July 1873-1876 |
| PT/67/6/5 | Plate, paper band and roller transmission apparatus and diagram of signals received by unknown artist | [1862] |
| MC/11/89 | Letter from J A [James Alfred] Ewing, 22 India Street, Edinburgh, to Walter White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society] | 19 July 1877 |
| MC/11 | Volume 11 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1877-1879 |
| RR/4/140 | Referee's report by Charles Wheatstone, on a paper 'On the insulating properties of gutta percha' by Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin | 11 June 1860 |
| RR/7/244 | Referee's report by Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin, on a paper 'On a new relation between heat and electricity' by Frederick Guthrie | 27 May 1873 |
| RR/9/94 | Referee's report by Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin, on a paper 'The influence of stress and strain on the physical properties of matter. Part II. electrical conductivity-continued. The alteration of the electrical conductivity of cobalt, magnesium, steel, and platinum-iridium produced by longitudinal traction; Discovery of simple relations between the ‘critical points’ of metals'by Herbert Tomlinson | 7 April 1882 |
| AP/63/7 | Paper, 'On the production of transient electric currents in iron and steel conductors by twisting them when magnetised or by magnetising them when twisted' by J A [James Alfred] Ewing | 16 July 1881 |
| AP/61/3/1 | Unpublished manuscript, 'Effects of stress on the thermoelectric quality of metals. Part I' by J A [James Alfred] Ewing | 20 April 1881 |
| RR/9/316 | Referee's report by Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin, on a paper 'The influence of stress and strain on the physical properties of matter' by Herbert Tomlinson | 9 February 1885 |
| RR/9/319 | Letter from Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin on a paper 'The influence of stress and strain on the physical properties of matter' by Herbert Tomlinson to the Secretary of the Royal Society | 28 March 1885 |
| AP/61/3 | Unpublished paper, 'Effects of stress on the thermoelectric quality of metals. Part I' by J A [James Alfred] Ewing | 1881-1885 |
| ACS/1/1/192 | Admission Card titled "University of Edinburgh 1881-82, Engineering" | 1881-1882 |