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Thomas Holmes Blakesley

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Thomas Holmes Blakesley (1847-1929)

1847 Born in Ware, son of Joseph William Blakesley; John Holmes Blakesley was one of his younger brothers.

c.1868 Attended King's College, Cambridge[1]

1869-1872 Worked for Easton and Anderson where he learned to be a civil engineer[2]

1871 Gained M.A. at Cambridge

1873 Associate Member of Inst Civil Engineers[3]

1885 of Kensington. Became a Member of Inst Civil Engineers

1886-91 Assistant examiner in Experimental Philosophy at the University of London[4]

1891 Mr. T. H. Blakesley M.A. published an article on "Work done on Iron Cores in alternating current apparatus" in Nature.

1904 A patent on "A New Spectroscope of Direct Vision for a Given Ray of Light2

1929 Thomas H. Blakesley died in Kensington[5]


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Sources of Information

  1. University records
  2. Civil engineer records
  3. Civil Engineer lists
  4. Student records
  5. BMD