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| Professor Osborne Reynolds (1842–1912), engineer and physicist
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| '''1913 Obituary <ref> [[1913 Institution of Civil Engineers: Obituaries]] </ref>
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| PROFESSOR OSBORNE REYNOLDS, M.A. (Cantab.), LL.D. (Glasgow), F.R.S., born in Belfast in 1842, died at Watchet, Somerset,
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| on the 21st February, 1912.
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| He was educated at Dedham Grammar
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| School, Essex, and at Queens’ College, Cambridge, graduating as a
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| high Wrangler in 1867. He had previously served a short apprenticeship
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| in the works of [[Edward Hayes]], of Stony Stratford, and after
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| leaving college, he entered the London office of [[Lawson and Mansergh]].
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| He was elected a Fellow, and afterwards Honorary
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| Fellow, of his College, and in 1868 he was appointed to the Chair
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| of Engineering at [[University of Manchester|Owens College, Manchester]], which he occupied
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| for nearly 40 years.
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| During his long and brilliant occupancy of this Chair, he organized
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| the famous Whitworth laboratories and made many very valuable
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| contributions to science, especially to mechanical science. His
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| investigations have been embodied in more than seventy Papers
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| and larger works, chiefly contributed to the Proceedings of the
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| principal scientific societies.
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| Among the more important may be
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| mentioned his researches on the Racing of Screws, the Motion of
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| Water in Parallel Channels, the Flow of Gases, the Theory of
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| Lubrication, the Action of Sand and Granular Media, and the
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| Creeping of Belts.
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| To this Institution he delivered in 1883 a
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| Lecture on 'The General Theory of Thermo-Dynamics,' and contributed
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| a Paper on 'The Theory of the Indicator and Errors
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| in Indicator Diagrams,' which was awarded a Telford premium.
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| Probably his most remarkable work was that on the 'The Sub-
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| Mechanics of the Universe,' published by the Royal Society in
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| 1903.
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| In 1875 he patented the compound turbine pump, which
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| has found extended application in recent years. Dr. Reynolds was
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| elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1877, and subsequently
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| became a Member of the Council. He served as a Sectional
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| President of the British Association in 1887, and in the following
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| year received the Royal medal of the Royal Society.
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| Dr. Reynolds was elected a Member of The Institution on the
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| 4th December, 1883.
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| == See Also ==
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| == Sources of Information ==
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| [[Category: Biography]]
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| [[Category: Biography - Academic]]
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| [[Category: Births 1840-1849]]
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| [[Category: Deaths 1910-1919]]
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| [[Category: Institution of Civil Engineers]]
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