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    William John Macquorn Rankine FRSE FRS (/ˈræŋkɪn/; 5 July 1820 – 24 December 1872) was a Scottish mathematician and physicist. He was a founding contributor...
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    moves between a heat source and heat sink. The Rankine cycle is named after William John Macquorn Rankine, a Scottish polymath professor at Glasgow University...
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    The Rankine vortex is a simple mathematical model of a vortex in a viscous fluid. It is named after its discoverer, William John Macquorn Rankine. The...
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  • Rankine's theory (maximum-normal stress theory), developed in 1857 by William John Macquorn Rankine, is a stress field solution that predicts active and...
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    of the work carried out by Scottish engineer and physicist William John Macquorn Rankine and French engineer Pierre Henri Hugoniot. The basic idea of...
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  • Lord Kelvin and expanded upon by Hermann von Helmholtz and William John Macquorn Rankine. Assuming that the universe is eternal, a question arises: How...
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  • offset from the path of communication. Rankine's method is named for its discoverer William John Macquorn Rankine at an early stage of his career. He had...
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    purpose. ... Sir William Thomson and Professor Tait have lately substituted the word 'kinetic' for 'actual.'" William John Macquorn Rankine (1867). "On the...
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  • The Rankine lecture is an annual lecture organised by the British Geotechnical Association named after William John Macquorn Rankine, an early contributor...
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    feet each, whereas, in reality, it consists of seventy-four William John Macquorn Rankine (1863). A Manual of Civil Engineering (2nd ed.). London: Griffin...
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    Italian-born English nurse. July 5 – William John Macquorn Rankine (died 1872), Scottish physicist. August 2 – John Tyndall (died 1893), Irish physicist...
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  • Pelleboer Sverre Petterssen José P. Piexoto Ron Przybylinski William John Macquorn Rankine Gandikota V. Rao Erik N. Rasmussen Lewis Fry Richardson Carl-Gustav...
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  • the Conservation of Force". Bartleby. Retrieved 6 April 2014. William John Macquorn Rankine (1853) "On the General Law of the Transformation of Energy,"...
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    S2CID 146292636. Grossman, M. I. (2014). "John Dalton and the London atomists: William and Bryan Higgins, William Austin, and new Daltonian doubts about...
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    James Watt (1736–1819) Thermodynamic cycle: William John Macquorn Rankine (1820–1872) Coal-gas lighting: William Murdoch (1754–1839) The Stirling heat engine:...
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    to the spectre of the heat death of the universe. In 1854, William John Macquorn Rankine started to make use of what he called thermodynamic function...
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    Guide to Design and Installation John Wiley and Sons, 2009 ISBN 0-470-40479-5 pages 3–11. William John Macquorn Rankine A manual of civil engineering, C...
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  • The prime movers behind the founding of the Institution were William John Macquorn Rankine, Regius Professor of Civil Engineering and Mechanics at the...
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    scientific advice, but eminent engineers William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin) and William John Macquorn Rankine were appointed to the committee. It concluded...
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    advertise it elsewhere, attracting little attention other than from William John Macquorn Rankine and Hermann von Helmholtz through whom it may have influenced...
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  • with Dundee, Blackburn, Charlton Macquorn Rankine (William John Macquorn Rankine, 1820–1872), Scottish engineer William Rankins (fl. 1590s), English writer...
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  • temperature – Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit degree Rankine (°R), temperature – William John Macquorn Rankine Dobson unit (DU), atmospheric ozone – Gordon Dobson...
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    as William John Macquorn Rankine, James Thomson, James Clerk Maxwell, and Peter Guthrie Tait joined to champion Joule's cause. However, in 1862, John Tyndall...
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  • under Dove. Also involved editorially were William John Macquorn Rankine, Francis Bowen, John Eadie, and John Pringle Nichol. A list of contributors appeared...
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    of the Human Body. JHU Press. p. 74. ISBN 978-0-8018-9455-8. William John Macquorn Rankine (1853) "On the general law of the transformation of energy"...
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    hence an eccentricity of the axial load. The Rankine Gordon formula, named for William John Macquorn Rankine and Perry Hugesworth Gordon (1899 – 1966),...
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    tutored as a young man by the famous scientist John Dalton and was strongly influenced by chemist William Henry and Manchester engineers Peter Ewart and...
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  • pump) John Ramsbottom (1814–1897) – inventor of the tamper-proof spring safety valve and the displacement lubricator William John Macquorn Rankine (1820–1872)...
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    'tired' in his lectures at the military school at Metz. 1842: William John Macquorn Rankine recognises the importance of stress concentrations in his investigation...
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    and nuclear power plants. It is named after William John Macquorn Rankine, a Scottish polymath. The Rankine cycle is sometimes referred to as a practical...
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