Joyce Brown
Biographic Data
| ID | 3945782 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joyce Brown |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joyce |
| FAMILY NAME | Brown |
| SIGNATURE | BROWN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Civil Engineering, Imperial College University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A memoir of Colonel Sir Proby Cautley, F. R. S., 1802-1871, engineer and palaeontologist
Proby Cautley was the sole projector and executive director of one of the largest irrigation canals ever built in the world, the Ganges Canal, the first new cut made by the British in India. In this respect, he was among the pioneers of perennial canal building, begun in Uttar Pradesh and present day Pakistan in about 1820 and continued well into this century. In addition, he was responsible with Dr Hugh Falconer (F.R.S. 1845) for making, describ…
Mathematical Instrument-Makers in the Grocers' Company, 1688-1800
Attercliffe, 1894
The question of why the Liberal Party failed to absorb and channel the increased political activity of the working class after 1885 is one that historians continue to debate. This paper is an attempt to assess the viability of the Liberal Party as a vehicle for working class political aspirations within the context of a single by-election in Sheffield, a city with a strong tradition of Liberal-Labour cooperation. To put the 1894 by-election in pe…
John and Edward Troughton, mathematical instrument makers
During the first quarter of the nineteenth century Edward Troughton (c. 1753-1835, F.R.S. 1810) was the foremost mathematical instrument maker in England, and in the last ten or fifteen years of the eighteenth century he and his older brother John Troughton (c. 1739-1807), then in partnership, ranked second only to the celebrated Jesse Ramsden (c. 1735-1800, F.R.S. 1786). Many examples of their work exist in the collections at Greenwich, South Ke…
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John and Edward Troughton, mathematical instrument makers
During the first quarter of the nineteenth century Edward Troughton (c. 1753-1835, F.R.S. 1810) was the foremost mathematical instrument maker in England, and in the last ten or fifteen years of the eighteenth century he and his older brother John Troughton (c. 1739-1807), then in partnership, ranked second only to the celebrated Jesse Ramsden (c. 1735-1800, F.R.S. 1786). Many examples of their work exist in the collections at Greenwich, South Ke…
Attercliffe, 1894
The question of why the Liberal Party failed to absorb and channel the increased political activity of the working class after 1885 is one that historians continue to debate. This paper is an attempt to assess the viability of the Liberal Party as a vehicle for working class political aspirations within the context of a single by-election in Sheffield, a city with a strong tradition of Liberal-Labour cooperation. To put the 1894 by-election in pe…
A memoir of Colonel Sir Proby Cautley, F. R. S., 1802-1871, engineer and palaeontologist
Proby Cautley was the sole projector and executive director of one of the largest irrigation canals ever built in the world, the Ganges Canal, the first new cut made by the British in India. In this respect, he was among the pioneers of perennial canal building, begun in Uttar Pradesh and present day Pakistan in about 1820 and continued well into this century. In addition, he was responsible with Dr Hugh Falconer (F.R.S. 1845) for making, describ…
Mathematical Instrument-Makers in the Grocers' Company, 1688-1800
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