John Hopkinson, FRS, (July 27 1849 – August 27 1898) was a British physicist, electrical engineer, Fellow of the Royal Society and President of the IEE twice in 1890 and 1896. He invented the three-wire (three-phase) system for the distribution of electrical power, for which he was granted a patent in 1882. He also worked in many areas of electromagnetism and electrostatics, and in 1890 was appointed professor of electrical engineering at King's College London, where he was also director of the Siemens Laboratory.
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John Hopkinson - Directory | LinkedIn
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John Hopkinson - LoveToKnow 1911
JOHN HOPKINSON (1849-1898), English engineer and physicist, was born in Manchester on the 27th of July 1849. ... Dr Hopkinson presented a rare combination of practical with ...
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John Hopkinson
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290 day ago
When Hix met Hoppy
Simon Hopkinson is weary of being called names. "This man is the best cook in Britain," was the uncompromising verdict of The Daily Telegraph four years ago. Rowley Leigh, one of London's most influential chefs in the Nineties (along with Hopkinson and Alastair Little) and currently the brains behind the Café Anglais in Bayswater, calls him "the leading British cookery writer". When the magazine ...
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293 day ago
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Producing a stamp in record time - John Mizzi, St Paul's Bay The article entitled 'Philatelic echo of 1989 Bush-Gorbachev Malta Summit' (The Sunday Times, October 4) deserves amplification. I was in some...
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295 day ago
Irving Penn: Photographer whose classical simplicity transformed the pages of 'Vogue' magazine
A great portraitist – they are very few – is a sort of sorcerer who seems beyond resemblance." This tribute to "Penn", by which single name he was always known, came from Maurice Goudeket, husband of the legendary writer Colette. On her 80th birthday, he records, "several famous photographers came to the apartment. For a long time now Colette had hardly moved from her bed, so the portraits ...
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