Arthur Mason WORTHINGTON

Background

WORTHINGTON, Arthur Mason was born on June 11, 1852 in Manchester. Youngest son of Robert Worthington, Crumpsall Hall, Manchester, Barrister, and Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Brewin, Birstall Hall, near Leicester.

Education

Rugby; Trinity College Oxford (Master of Arts). Owens College Manchester. University of Berlin, in the Laboratory of Professor Helmholtz.

Career

He is best known for his work on fluid mechanics, especially the physics of splashes. Foreign observing those, he pioneered techniques of high speed photography. He also proposed the slug as a unit of inertial mass, and the pound-foot as a dedicated unit of torque.

He was Science Master at Clifton College, Bristol (1877, 1880-1884) and then Headmaster at the Royal Naval Engineering College, Devonport.

In June 1893 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. His candidacy citation read:

Head Master and Professor of Physics, Royal Naval Engineering College, Devonport.

Distinguished as a physicist, especially for his researches on surface tension and on the stretching of liquids. Author of the following papers: - "On the Forms assumed by Drops of Liquid falling Vertically on a Horizontal Plate" (Proc Roy Social, 1876-1877).

"On the Spontaneous Segmentation of a Liquid Annulus" (ibid, 1879).

"On Pendent Drops" (ibid, 1881). "On Impact with a Liquid Surface" (ibid, 1882). "On the Horizontal Motion of Floating Bodies under the Action of Capillary Forces" (Philosophy Magazine, 1883).

On the Surface Forcesin Fliuds" (ibid, 1884).

"On the Error involved in Professor Quincke"s Method of Calculating Surface Tensions from the Dimensions of Flat Drops and Bubbles" (ibid, 1885). "A Capillary Multiplier" (ibid).

"On Tensional Stress and Strain within a Liquid" (Brit Association, Section(s) A, 1888). "On the Discharge of Electrification by Flames" (Brit Association, Rept Electrolysis Committee, 1889).

"on the Mechanical Stretching of Liquids, an Experimental Determination of the Volume-Extensibility of Ethyl Alcohol" (read before the Roy Social, February 4, 1892).

Also of the following: - "Physical Laboratory Practice," and "The Dynamics of Rotation.

Works

• book

  • A Study of Splashes - Primary Source Edition

    ( This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923....)

  • A Study of Splashes

    ("A Study of Splashes" from Arthur Mason Worthington. Engl...)

Membership

Fellow of the Royal Society. Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. Club: Roval Societies.

Interests

• Sketching, hunting.

Connections

Spouse 1877, Helen, y.daughter of Thomas Solly, Banister of Middle Temple, and Professor in the University of Berlin.

Father:

Robert Worthington

Mother:

Elizabeth

Spouse:

Helen