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An electrical engineer, university teacher and wide-ranging writer, Fleeming Jenkin (1833 85) filed thirty-five British patents in the course of his career. Edited by Sidney Colvin (1845 1927) and J. A. Ewing (1855 1935) and first published in 1887, this two-volume work brings together a selection of Jenkin's varied and engaging papers. The collection ranges from notes on his voyages as a marine telegraph engineer, to a critical review of Darwin's On the Origin of Species, essays on literature, and thoughts on technical education. A memoir written by Robert Louis Stevenson, his former...

An electrical engineer, university teacher and wide-ranging writer, Fleeming Jenkin (1833 85) filed thirty-five British patents in the course of his career. Edited by Sidney Colvin (1845 1927) and J. A. Ewing (1855 1935) and first published in 1887, this two-volume work brings together a selection of Jenkin's varied and engaging papers. The collection ranges from notes on his voyages as a marine telegraph engineer, to a critical review of Darwin's On the Origin of Species, essays on literature, and thoughts on technical education. A memoir written by Robert Louis Stevenson, his former...