Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher:
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Category : Engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 302
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Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher:
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Category : Jenkin, Fleeming
Languages : en
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Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN: 9781404370876
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin / Robert Louis Stevenson.
Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin Annotated
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 188
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In Memoir, RLS discusses Jenkin's family ancestry in detail, outlining their careers. He then tells the story of Jenkin's life - his birth, early childhood, studenthood, marriage, and his accession to Chair at Edinburgh University. Stevenson also focuses on Jenkin's professional triumphs, including his invention of telpherage (a system of using electricity to transport vehicles or goods).
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Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher:
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Category : Bell Rock lighthouse
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 508
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Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin
Author: Robert StevensonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 134
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Book Excerpt: e age. He was a handsome figure of a man; jovial and jocular; fond of his garden, which produced under his care the finest fruits of the neighbourhood; and like all the family, very choice in horses. He drove tandem; like Jehu, furiously. His saddle horse, Captain (for the names of horses are piously preserved in the family chronicle which I follow), was trained to break into a gallop as soon as the vicar's foot was thrown across its back; nor would the rein be drawn in the nine miles between Northiam and the Vicarage door. Debt was the man's proper element; he used to skulk from arrest in the chancel of his church; and the speed of Captain may have come sometimes handy. At an early age this unconventional parson married his cook, and by her he had two daughters and one son. One of the daughters died unmarried; the other imitated her father, and married 'imprudently.' The son, still more gallantly continuing the tradition, entered the army, loaded himself with debt, was forced to sell o Read More
Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781331003960
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Excerpt from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin: Records of a Family of Engineers Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin: Records of a Family of Engineers was written by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1907. This is a 375 page book, containing 125089 words. Search Inside is enabled for this title. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.