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Professor Bertram Hopkinson | Professor Bertram Hopkinson (1874–1918), mechanical and aeronautical engineer | ||
(1874–1918), mechanical and aeronautical engineer | |||
1874 born on 11 January at Woodlea, Birmingham, the eldest son of [[John Hopkinson (1849 - 1898)]], electrical engineer | 1874 born on 11 January at Woodlea, Birmingham, the eldest son of [[John Hopkinson (1849 - 1898)]], electrical engineer | ||
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1897 Called to the bar. | 1897 Called to the bar. | ||
1898 | 1898 On his father's death Bertram returned to engineering | ||
By 1903 Had been elected to the Cambridge chair in mechanism and applied mechanics (a chair that his father had once refused). On 31 December he married Mariana Dulce Siemens, a distant cousin to the founders of the German firm of electrical engineers; they had seven daughters. | |||
1910 elected FRS | |||
1914 Became a professorial fellow of King's College, Cambridge. | |||
WWI commissioned in the Royal Engineers. Applied his knowledge of explosions to various problems including the best form of bomb to be dropped from aircraft; the invention of a "blister" to be added to the hull of a ship, to absorb the energy of an exploding torpedo or mine. | |||
1915 he was appointed to the Department of Military Aeronautics. Established an experimental station for the Royal Flying Corps at Orford Ness, and later at Martlesham Heath, where the testing of aircraft was under his control. Responsible for the development of bombs, guns, gunsights, and ammunition, and also the systematic study of night flying, and of navigation in clouds and bad weather. | |||
1918 Died on a flight from Martlesham Heath to London. | |||
== See Also == | == See Also == | ||
Revision as of 13:51, 7 May 2013
Professor Bertram Hopkinson (1874–1918), mechanical and aeronautical engineer
1874 born on 11 January at Woodlea, Birmingham, the eldest son of John Hopkinson (1849 - 1898), electrical engineer
1893 Read mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge (1893–6)
1896 Entered the legal profession
1897 Called to the bar.
1898 On his father's death Bertram returned to engineering
By 1903 Had been elected to the Cambridge chair in mechanism and applied mechanics (a chair that his father had once refused). On 31 December he married Mariana Dulce Siemens, a distant cousin to the founders of the German firm of electrical engineers; they had seven daughters.
1910 elected FRS
1914 Became a professorial fellow of King's College, Cambridge.
WWI commissioned in the Royal Engineers. Applied his knowledge of explosions to various problems including the best form of bomb to be dropped from aircraft; the invention of a "blister" to be added to the hull of a ship, to absorb the energy of an exploding torpedo or mine.
1915 he was appointed to the Department of Military Aeronautics. Established an experimental station for the Royal Flying Corps at Orford Ness, and later at Martlesham Heath, where the testing of aircraft was under his control. Responsible for the development of bombs, guns, gunsights, and ammunition, and also the systematic study of night flying, and of navigation in clouds and bad weather.
1918 Died on a flight from Martlesham Heath to London.
See Also
Sources of Information
- Biography of Bertram Hopkinson, ODNB