Background
He was born in Liverpool, England, on 30 May 1790.
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James Renwick
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He graduated from Columbia College in 1807.
Career
In 1820 he was appointed professor of natural philosophy in that college, a position he held until 1854. In 1838 he was appointed by the United States. government one of the commissioners to explore the line of the boundary, then settled by the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, between Maine and New Brunswick. In addition to his collegiate duties he wrote the biographies of Robert Fulton, David Rittenhouse, and Count Rumford, in Sparks"s American Biography.
A Memoir of DeWitt Clinton (1834).
And a Treatise on the Steam-engine (1830). His textbooks, Outlines of Natural Philosophy (1822), Elements of Mechanics (1832), and First Principles of Chemistry (1840) were among the first works of their kind published in the United States, the first and third of these, along with his other educational works, passing through multiple editions.
Renwick died in 1863. Renwick was also responsible for the idea and initial design of the inclined planes on the Morris Canal.
The design of these planes were later copied for the Elbląg Canal in Poland.
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English-American