Background
Hodgkinson was born on February 26, 1789 in Northwich, England, to a farming family. His father died when he was six years old and he was raised with his two sisters by his mother who maintained the farming business.
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Experimental researches On the strength and other propertiesof cast iron
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Practical Essay on the Strength of Cast Iron and Other Metals 2 Volume Set: Containing Practical Rules, Tables, and Examples, Founded on a Series of ... (Cambridge Library Collection - Technology)
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Although cast iron was used in pagoda construction in ancient China, it was in Britain in the eighteenth century that new methods allowed for its production in quantities that enabled widespread use. An engineer who had educated himself tirelessly in technical subjects from carpentry to architecture, Thomas Tredgold (1788-1829) first published this work in 1822. It served as a standard textbook for British engineers in the early nineteenth century, and several translations extended its influence on the continent. Reissued here in the fourth edition of 1842, edited and annotated by the structural engineer Eaton Hodgkinson (1789-1861), who presents his own research in the second volume, this work addresses both practical and mathematical questions in assessing metallic strength. In Volume 1, wherever progress has been made since the original publication, Hodgkinson adds notes to Tredgold's original text. In Volume 2, Hodgkinson provides details of his own advanced experiments.
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A Treatise On the Strength of Materials with Rules for Application in Architecture: The Construction of Suspension Bridges, Railways, Etc
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Eaton Hodgkinson
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Hodgkinson was sent to Witton Grammar School in Northwich where he studied the classics with the intention that he would fulfill the family's ambition that he prepare for a career in the Church of England. Unfortunately, the regime was unsuited to his tastes and talents which were already showing promise in mathematics. His mother moved him to a less prestigious private school in Northwich where his enthusiasm for mathematics was encouraged and fostered but, as the young Hodgkinson grew physically, he became indispensable on the family farm and soon left education to devote himself there.
Career
Hodgkinson used all his spare time in reading science and mathematics and soon introduced himself into Manchester's scientific community, meeting, among others, his future collaborator, Sir William Fairbairn. He became a pupil of John Dalton, studying mathematics, and the two remained firm friends until Dalton's death in 1844. He retired early from the family business to devote a modest pension to his scientific work. A paper which he communicated to the Royal Society on "Experimental Researches on the Strength of Pillars of Cast Iron and other Materials, " in 1840 gained him a Royal medal in 1841, and he was also elected a fellow. In 1847 he was appointed professor of the mechanical principles of engineering in University College, London, and at the same time he was employed as a member of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the application of iron to railway structures. In 1848 he was chosen president of the Manchester Philosophical Society, of which he had been a member since 1826, and to which, both previously and subsequently, he contributed many of the more important results of his discoveries. For several years he took an active part in the discussions of the Institution of Civil Engineers, of which he was elected an honorary member in 1851. He died at Eaglesfield House, near Manchester, on the 18th of June 1861.
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Practical Essay on the Strength of Cast Iron and Other Metals 2 Volume Set: Containing Practical Rules, Tables, and Examples, Founded on a Series of ... (Cambridge Library Collection - Technology)
(Although cast iron was used in pagoda construction in anc...)
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Experimental researches On the strength and other propertiesof cast iron
(This book, "Experimental researches On the strength and o...)
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A Treatise On the Strength of Materials with Rules for Application in Architecture: The Construction of Suspension Bridges, Railways, Etc
(This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)
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Practical Essay on the Strength of Cast Iron and Other Metals 2 Volume Set: Containing Practical Rules, Tables, and Examples, Founded on a Series of ... (Cambridge Library Collection - Technology)
Membership
Fellow of the Royal Society (1841)
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Hodgkinson married twice, to Catherine Johns and to a Miss Holditch. There were no children.
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