Prof Andrew Jamieson CE

FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". This soci ...

(1849–1912) was a Scottish engineer and academic author.

Life

He was born in October 1849 in

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in northern Scotland the son of Rev George Jamieson DD, minister of St Machar's Cathedral, and his wife, Jane Wallace. He went to school at the Gymnasium in Old

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. He was apprenticed to

Hall, Russell & Company Hall, Russell & Company, Limited was a shipbuilder based in Aberdeen, Scotland. History Brothers James and William Hall, Thomas Russell, a Glasgow engineer, and James Cardno Couper founded the company in 1864 to build steam engines and boile ...

, shipbuilders in Aberdeen, around 1864, at its foundation. He then studied Mathematics and Engineering at

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. From 1880 to 1882 he was President of the Institute of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland (IESIS). From 1880 to 1887 he was Principal of the Glasgow College of Science and Arts. At this time he lived at 38 Bath Street in Glasgow. In 1887 he accepted the role of Professor of Engineering at the West of Scotland Technical College. In 1882 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposers were

William Thomson, Lord Kelvin William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, (26 June 182417 December 1907) was a British mathematician, mathematical physicist and engineer born in Belfast. Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Glasgow for 53 years, he did important ...

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, and

George Chrystal George Chrystal FRSE FRS (8 March 1851 – 3 November 1911) was a Scottish mathematician. He is primarily know for his books on algebra and his studies of seiches (wave patterns in large inland bodies of water) which earned him a Gold Meda ...

. In 1902 he was the consultant engineer on the electrification of

Glasgow tramways Glasgow Corporation Tramways were formerly one of the largest urban tramway systems in Europe. Over 1000 municipally-owned trams served the city of Glasgow, Scotland, with over 100 route miles (160 route kilometres) by 1922. The system closed i ...

. He died at 16 Rosslyn Terrace in Glasgow on 4 December 1912.

Publications

*''Electrical Rules and Tables for the use of Electricians and Engineers'' (1894) *''A Textbook on Steam and steam Engines'' Twelfth Edition contains questions for the 1897 Examinations in "Steam" which was held post printing of book. (1897) *''Elementary Manual on Applied Mechanics'' (1902) *''A Textbook of Applied Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering'' (1903)

Family

He married Isabella Anne Trail, daughter of Very Rev Prof

Samuel Trail Samuel Trail (1806–1887) was a Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1874. Life He was born in the parish of Udny on 31 May 1806, the son of John T. Trail, a farmer. He studied divinity ...

. He was the elder brother of William Jamieson (1853–1926), mine manager, and

Mathew Buchan Jamieson Mathew (often Matthew) Buchan Jamieson (16 May 1860 – 17 August 1895), was a Scottish-born engineer in Australia, closely identified with the young town of Broken Hill, New South Wales. History Jamieson was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, the fourth ...

(1860–1895), civil engineer, both closely identified with the young town of

Broken Hill, New South Wales Broken Hill is an inland mining city in the far west of outback New South Wales, Australia. It is near the border with South Australia on the crossing of the Barrier Highway (A32) and the Silver City Highway (B79), in the Barrier Range. It is ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jamieson, Andrew 1849 births 1912 deaths Scottish electrical engineers Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Alumni of the University of Aberdeen People from Banffshire