GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP24 - JAMESON, Professor Alexander Hope (1874-1952)

1 volume, 2 items

GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP24 Created 1935 Collection (fonds) 1 volume, 2 items Jameson , Alexander Hope , 1874-1952 , Professor of Civil Engineering
Born 1874; educated Owens College, Manchester; Bishop Berkeley Fellow and Demonstrator in Whitworth Engineering Laboratory, 1894-1897; Draughtsman, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Manchester, and Assistant to Resident Engineers, Halifax and Wakefield, 1897-1901; Engineering Assistant, Derwent Valley Water Board, and Resident Engineer on Derwent Aqueduct, Cumberland, 1901-1909; Resident Engineer on Thirlmere Aqueduct (Third Pipe Line), Cumberland, 1909-1912; Professor of Civil Engineering, King's College London, 1912-1935; Fellow of King's College, 1924; External Examiner, Bristol University, 1920-1921, and London University, 1927 and 1930-1933; Dean of Engineering Faculty, University of London, 1932-1935; retired, 1935; Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering, 1935; Honorary Secretary, 1947-1950, and Honorary Treasurer, 1946-1951, Worthing Branch, Overseas League; died 1952.

Publications: Advanced surveying: a text-book for students (Pitman and Sons, London, 1934); An introduction to fluid mechanics (Longmans and Co, London, 1937); Contour geometry, and its applications to earthwork design and quantities (Pitman and Sons, London, 1931); Mathematical geography (Pitman and Sons, London, 1927); paper on 'Testing the strength of materials' in Proceedings of the Institute of Civil Engineers, [1917]; paper on 'Flow over sharp-edged weirs', in Proceedings of the Institute of Civil Engineers, Nov 1948.

Presented by the family to King's College London Archives via the Faculty of Engineering.

Presentation volume of signatures of past and present members of the Engineering Faculty, University of London, presented to Jameson on his retirement from the Chair of Civil Engineering, Dec 1935; menu and ticket, Dec 1935, for the 38th Annual Dinner of the Engineering Society, where the above presentation was made.

1 volume, 2 items.

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be provided for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services, King's College London.
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Presented by the family to King's College London Archives via the Faculty of Engineering.

Presentation volume of signatures of past and present members of the Engineering Faculty, University of London, presented to Jameson on his retirement from the Chair of Civil Engineering, Dec 1935; menu and ticket, Dec 1935, for the 38th Annual Dinner of the Engineering Society, where the above presentation was made.

1 volume, 2 items.

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be provided for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services, King's College London.

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