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John Scott Russell (he took "Scott" as his middle name), founder of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects, was born in Glasgow in 1808. and spent his career at the intersection of science and engineering in the heady years of Britain's Industrial Revolution. Unusually for the era,...

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Veröffentlicht in:Naval architect 2022-02, p.43
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Zusammenfassung:John Scott Russell (he took "Scott" as his middle name), founder of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects, was born in Glasgow in 1808. and spent his career at the intersection of science and engineering in the heady years of Britain's Industrial Revolution. Unusually for the era, he was both university-educated in mathematics, and apprenticed as a steam carriage maker, after which in 1838 he went into the shipbuilding business. He studied wave physics and developed the "wave-line" principle for hull design, which became the basis for the clipper ships and fast racing yachts of the mid-19th century. He was most famous for building the passenger ship Great Eastern starting in 1853, under contract with Isambard Kingdom Brunei. In 1860, he proposed the establishment of the Institution of Naval Architects - it became 'Royal' in 1960 - and was one of its first vice presidents. Several years later he helped lead the successful drive to establish Britain's first permanent School of Naval Architecture, in London. Russell's remarkable life was chronicled by George S. Emmerson (1977) and more recently by Andrew Lambert (2011).
ISSN:0306-0209