scholarly journals Robert Hanbury Brown. 31 August 1916 – 16 January 2002 Elected FRS 1960

2003 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 83-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Davis ◽  
Bernard Lovell
Keyword(s):  
Technical College ◽  
Electrical Engineering ◽  
Imperial College ◽  
Van Der Pol ◽  
Preparatory School ◽  
External Degree ◽  
Major Turning Point ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
Appropriate Education

Robert Hanbury Brown was born on 31 August 1916 in Aruvankadu, Nilgiri Hills, South India; he was the son of an Officer in the Indian Army, Col. Basil Hanbury Brown, and of Joyce Blaker. From the age of 3 years Hanbury was educated in England, initially at a School in Bexhill and then from the ages of 8 to 14 years at the Cottesmore Preparatory School in Hove, Sussex. In 1930 he entered Tonbridge School as a Judde scholar in classics. Hanbury's interests turned to science and technology, particularly electrical engineering, and after two years he decided that he would seek more appropriate education in a technical college. His decision was accelerated by the fact that after the divorce of his parents his mother had married Jack Lloyd, a wealthy stockbroker, who in 1932 vanished with all his money and thus Hanbury felt he should seek a career that would lead to his financial independence. For these reasons Hanbury decided to take an engineering course at Brighton Technical College studying for an external degree in the University of London. At the age of 19 he graduated with a first-class honours BSc, taking advanced electrical engineering and telegraphy and telephony. He then obtained a grant from East Sussex and in 1935 joined the postgraduate department at the City & Guilds, Imperial College. In 1936 he obtained the Diploma of Imperial College (DIC) for a thesis on oscillators He intended to continue his course for a PhD but a major turning point in his career occurred when he was interviewed during his first postgraduate year by Sir Henry Tizard FRS, Rector of Imperial College. Hanbury explained to Tizard that he was following up some original work by Van der Pol on oscillator circuits without inductance and hoped, ultimately, to combine an interest in radio with flying. In fact, Tizard had already challenged him about the amount of time he spent flying with the University of London Air Squadron. Tizard told Hanbury to see him again in a year's time and that he might then have a job for him. In fact, within three months Tizard accosted Hanbury and said he had an interesting research project in the Air Ministry for him. After an interview by R.A. (later Sir Robert) Watson-Watt (FRS 1941), Hanbury was offered a post at the Radio Research Board in Slough. His visit to Slough was brief; he was soon told to report to Bawdsey Manor in Suffolk, which he did on 15 August 1936. Thereby, unaware of what Tizard had in mind for him, Hanbury's career as one of the pioneers of radar began.

scholarly journals Prediksi Kebutuhan Data Mahasiswa Untuk Kuliah Daring Kondisi Covid-19 Di Jurusan Teknik Elektro Universitas Mataram

2022 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-208
Author(s):  
Made Sutha Yadnya ◽  
Ni Luh Sinar Ayu Ratna Dewi ◽  
Sudi Maryanto Al Sasongko ◽  
Rosmaliati Rosmaliati ◽  
Abdulah Zainuddin
Keyword(s):  
Sharp Increase ◽  
Electrical Engineering ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Use Of Data ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
Lombok Island

In the covid-19 condition, lectures at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Mataram University changed from a face-to-face process to via the Internet. T here will be a very sharp increase in demand. The use of data initially provided by the University of Mataram using a free hotspot network turned into a burden on lecturers and students. This research was conducted by sampling, general compulsory subjects, compulsory electrical courses, and compulsory expertise subjects. The distribution of variations of students domiciled in the City of Mataram and the other place coverage Lombok Island, within NTB and outside NTB. The results obtained are as follows: students who still survive in Mataram City are 17% (10.5 GB), Lombok Island 48% (8.1 GB), outside Lonbok Island 27% (4.8 GB), and outside NTB 8% (15 GB). Keyword : covid-19; lectures; online

Correlation of the Mathematical Subjects Develops Mathematical Power

1923 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 302-310
Author(s):  
Charles A. Stone
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Technical College ◽  
Simple Arithmetic ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

The problem below was recently submitted to the pupils of the University High School. It was published in the University High School Daily. Interest in the problem was aroused by the fact that it previously had been inserted for two weeks in the daily of a technical college in the city. It was the talk of the college for about two weeks but only four incorrect solutions were turned in, in spite of the fact that it was specifically stated that the problem could be solved by simple arithmetic. This added to the interest of the project.

scholarly journals Frank Twyman, 1876-1959

1960 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 269-279
Keyword(s):  
Technical College ◽  
Electrical Engineering ◽  
Imperial College ◽  
Form Part ◽  
John Perry

Frank Twyman was born in Canterbury on 17 November 1876. His father, George Edmund Twyman, had nine children, and Frank was the seventh child. George Twyman was a ropemaker, specializing in ropes, netting and jute articles for the hop trade. His sons used to help, and Frank cut out and sewed hop-pockets, and designed a machine for marking hop-pockets with their consecutive numbers. Frank Twyman attended the Simon Langton School, Canterbury, until September 1892 when he began a two-year course in electrical engineering at the Finsbury Technical College, where he studied under Sylvanus Thompson, John Perry and Meldola. While at Finsbury, he won the Siemens Scholarship to the Central Technical College, South Kensington (later to form part of Imperial College). While he was at school, he had proved so expert at passing examinations with a minimum of knowledge that ‘in entering for the Intermediate B.Sc. examination I thought I could pass without knowing anything whatever. I was mistaken; so it is that my highest academic distinction is to have failed in both biology and chemistry in the Intermediate B.Sc. examination.’ It is fair to add that at the time he was making a model of ‘Duplex Telegraphy’ for a lecture of Professor Ayrton’s, and correcting the proofs of a new edition of one of Ayrton’s books, and he attributed his failure in part to the conscientiousness with which he was doing these tasks.

David William Dye, 1887 - 1932

1932 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-78
Keyword(s):  
Private School ◽  
Technical College ◽  
National Physical Laboratory ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Engineering Student ◽  
Electrical Measurements ◽  
Physical Laboratory ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

Dr. David William Dye was born at Portsmouth on December 30, 1887, and by his death at Surbiton on February 18th, 1932, at the early age of 44 years, we have lost a brilliant investigator and an acknowledged authority on the subject of electrical precision measurement to which his working life was devoted. The third son of the late Charles Dye, J.P., of Portsmouth, he received his early instruction in that city, first at a private school and later at the Municipal Technical College. As an engineering student he worked at the City and Guilds Technical College and subsequently graduated in the University of London. After a short apprenticeship course with the British ThomsonHouston Company at Rugby he joined the stall of the National Physical Laboratory in 1910, where he at once found tasks which specially appealed to him. Under A. Campbell, who was then in charge of the Electrical Measurements Division, he assisted in the development of methods for the magnetic testing of iron and its alloys in various forms, the construction of standards of inductance and the measurements of currents of radio-frequency.

Sir William Jackson Pope 1870-1939

1941 ◽  
Vol 3 (9) ◽  
pp. 291-324 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Technical College ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Imperial College ◽  
University Degree ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City

William Jackson Pope was the eldest son of William and Alice Pope, who at the time of his birth (31 March 1870) lived in New North Road, in the City of London. On leaving the Cowper Street Endowed School, Pope proceeded to the Finsbury Technical College where he was one of H. E. Armstrong’s earliest pupils. He followed Armstrong to the Central Institution (now the City and Guild’s College of the Imperial College of Science and Technology), where the scheme of scientific studies, having no reference to outside examining bodies, did not lead to a university degree but gave a rigorous training in chemistry, crystallography under (now) Sir Henry A. Miers and in research methods admirably suited to Pope’s genius. From that time dated the remarkable friendship between H. E. Armstrong and Pope, which was only broken by the former’s death in 1937.

William Edward Curtis, 1889-1969

1970 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 63-76
Keyword(s):  
Royal College ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Imperial College ◽  
Interest In Science ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Common ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
Newcastle Upon Tyne

William Edward Curtis was a Londoner by birth, but he spent much of his life in Newcastle upon Tyne, where he took a leading part in the educational life of the university and the city. He was born in Islington, North London, on 23 October 1889, and was the son of a gilder, of Horsham in Sussex. His mother, Emily Sarah ( née Haward) came from Ipswich. There is little evidence of interest in science on either side of the family, and indeed it seems that Curtis came to physics via astronomy. The drive and energy which in later life were among his most striking features seem to have been manifested to a marked degree in his mother, and in several uncles on his mother’s side, who were successful master founders. Curtis had one sister, Edith, five years older than himself. He had few young friends and read avidly and widely. At school he was outstanding, and made his way by scholarships from his primary school, Ecclesbourne Road, Islington, to Owen’s School, Islington, and thence to the Imperial College. At Owen’s he held a Drapers’ Scholarship and then an L.C.C. Intermediate Scholarship. He was a fine all-rounder, taking prizes in a wide range of subjects, and he excelled at several games, especially cricket. He was head boy in his last year at school and studied, mainly privately, for a National Scholarship in Science. A Royal Exhibition followed from the results of the Common Examination, and he entered Imperial College as a physics student in 1907, the year in which the old name, The Royal College of Science, was changed to the now more familiar one.

Humanist Engagements

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howell A. Lloyd
Keyword(s):  
Educational Provision ◽  
The Third ◽  
Social Composition ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Law Faculty ◽  
Editorial Work ◽  
Governmental Institutions ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

Bodin arrived in Toulouse c.1550, a brief account of the economy, social composition, and governmental institutions of which opens the chapter. There follow comments on its cultural life and identification of its leading citizenry, with remarks on the treatment of alleged religious dissidents by the city itself, and especially on discordant intellectual influences at work in the University, most notably the Law Faculty and the modes of teaching there. The chapter’s second part reviews Bodin’s translation and edition of the Greek poem Cynegetica by Oppian ‘of Cilicia’, assessing the quality of his editorial work, the extent to which allegations of plagiarism levelled against him were valid, and the nature and merits of his translation. The third section recounts contemporary wrangling over educational provision in Toulouse and examines the Oratio in which Bodin argued the case for humanist-style educational provision by means of a reconstituted college there.

The Theatrical Memory of Space: from Piscator and Brecht to Belgrade

2005 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 358-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvija Jestrovic
Keyword(s):  
Postdoctoral Fellow ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Cultural Spaces ◽  
Theatre Studies ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

In this article, Silvija Jestrovic introduces the notion of spatial inter-performativity to discuss theatre's relationship to actual political and cultural spaces. Focusing on the Berlin of the 1920s in performances of Brecht and Piscator, then on a street procession of the Générik Vapeur troupe that took place in Belgrade in 1994, she examines how theatrical and political spaces refer to and transform one another. Silvija Jestrovic was a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at York University in Toronto, and has recently taken up an appointment in the School of Theatre Studies at the University of Warwick. She is currently working on a book-length project entitled Avant-Garde and the City.

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