Author:William John Macquorn Rankine
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Fellow of the Royal Society, Scottish engineer, physicist and humourist. He was a founding contributor to the science of thermodynamics
This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Articles written by this author are designated in the EB1911 by the initials "W. J. M. R."
William John Macquorn Rankine
Works[ред.]
- Outlines of the Science of Energetics
- These Songs and Fables (1874) (PDF)
Papers[ред.]
- "On plane water-lines in two dimensions" Phil. Trans. R. Soc. 31 December 1864 Volume 154 doi:10.1098/rstl.1864.0010
Contributions to EB9[ред.]
- "Mechanics," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (Applied (in part))
Works about Rankine[ред.]
- "Rankine, William John Macquorn," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "Rankine, William John Macquorn," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
- "William John Macquorn Rankine", in Lectures on Ten British Physicists of the Nineteenth Century (1919), edited by Alexander Macfarlane
Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1928, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.
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- 1872 deaths
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