Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin FRS FRSE LLD (/ˈflɛmɪŋ/; 25 March 1833 – 12 June 1885) was Regius Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh...
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Charles Patrick Fleeming Jenkin, Baron Jenkin of Roding, PC (7 September 1926 – 20 December 2016) was a British Conservative Party politician who served...
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Louis Fleeming Jenkin, Military Cross & Bar, (22 August 1895 – 11 September 1917) was a First World War flying ace credited with 22 victories. Jenkin was...
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"Professor Fleeming Jenkin, 1833–1885 Pioneer in Engineering and Political Economy," Oxford Economic Papers, NS, 15(3), p. 211. Fleeming Jenkin, 1870. "The...
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later a life peer (as Baron Jenkin of Roding); and Monica Jenkin (née Graham). He is a descendant of the scientist Fleeming Jenkin. He was educated at the...
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implied blending inheritance. His reliance on this mechanism led Fleeming Jenkin to attack Darwin's theory of natural selection on the grounds that...
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Edward Elgar Publishing. p. 110. Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin, by R. L. Stevenson. Papers by Fleeming Jenkin, edited by Sir Sidney Colvin, James Alfred Ewing...
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printmaker Fleeming Jenkin (1833–1885), British engineer Graham Jenkin (born 1938), Australian poet, historian, composer, and educator Guy Jenkin (born 1955)...
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who would become Stevenson's financial agent, and with a professor, Fleeming Jenkin, whose house staged amateur drama in which Stevenson took part, and...
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input. He considers devices by James Watt, Professor James Thomson, Fleeming Jenkin, William Thomson, Léon Foucault and Carl Wilhelm Siemens (a liquid...
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beneficial, would be weakened by 50% at each generation, as the engineer Fleeming Jenkin noted in 1868. This in turn meant that small variations would not survive...
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while variation was admitted to be mostly not of value. The engineer Fleeming Jenkin correctly noted in 1868, reviewing The Origin of Species, that the...
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"Professor Fleeming Jenkin, 1833–1885 Pioneer in Engineering and Political Economy", Oxford Economic Papers, 15(3), p. 211. Fleeming Jenkin, 1870. "The...
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kinetic, and fluid) commonly used today in engineering. In 1877, Fleeming Jenkin and J. A. Ewing investigated the continuity between static and kinetic...
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The swamping argument is an objection against Darwinism made by Fleeming Jenkin. He asserted that an accidentally-appearing profitable variety cannot...
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Schouhamer Immink Pioneer optical recording, CD, DVD, Blu-ray Disc Fleeming Jenkin Submarine telegraph cables Kristina Johnson Polarization-control techniques...
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Office of the Minister of Agriculture, Canada. p. 150. pages 85-90 Fleeming Jenkin (1876). Bridges: an elementary treatise on their construction and history...
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the only daughter in four children. She married in 1832 and her son Fleeming Jenkin was born the following year. By 1840, she was publishing the first...
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may diminish the number of labourers employed, and often does so". Fleeming Jenkin, "The graphic representation of the laws of Supply and Demand..." in...
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about 100 million years old. Darwin accepted blending inheritance, but Fleeming Jenkin calculated that as it mixed traits, natural selection could not accumulate...
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leads to the averaging out of every characteristic, which as the engineer Fleeming Jenkin pointed out, makes evolution by natural selection impossible....
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Brazil, under William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin and Fleeming Jenkin. In 1878, on Fleeming Jenkin's recommendation, Ewing was recruited to help the modernisation...
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(1915) Reflexions on the Actor`s Art, translator unknown, review by Fleeming Jenkin page 45, published by Dramatic Museum of Columbia University. Portal:...
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inheritance". Isis. 54 (3): 371–390. doi:10.1086/349734. S2CID 143975567. Jenkin F (1867). "Review of The Origin of Species". North British Review. Mendel...
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(Mas-Colell, Whinston, and Green, 1995, p. 24; Silberberg and Suen, 2000) Fleeming Jenkin (1870), "The Graphical Representation of the Laws of Supply and Demand...
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Earl Jellicoe (1859–1935), admiral during the First World War Louis Fleeming Jenkin (1895–1917), captain Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes (1872–1945), admiral...
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The theoretical apparatus of supply and demand curves developed by Fleeming Jenkin and Alfred Marshall provided a unified mathematical basis for this...
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submarine cables, Thomson entered into a partnership with C. F. Varley and Fleeming Jenkin. In conjunction with the latter, he also devised an automatic curb...
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Cole, Philip Fullard (later Air Commodore), Eustace Grenfell, Louis Fleeming Jenkin, Tom Hazell, Harold Albert Kullberg, Charles Lavers, Francis Magoun...
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developed theoretically by William Thomson and demonstrated to work by Fleeming Jenkin. The Magnetic played a part in solving the dispersion problem on the...
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