Background
BLAKESLEY, Thomas H. was born in 1847. 2nd son of Very Reverend J. W. Blakesley, late Dean of Lincoln.
BLAKESLEY, Thomas H. was born in 1847. 2nd son of Very Reverend J. W. Blakesley, late Dean of Lincoln.
Charterhouse; King’s College, Cambridge. Master of Arts.
Civil Engineer and Manitoba of Science. Contributed an account of the ruins of Sigiri in Ceylon to the Royal Asiatic Society, 1875. And discovered a large mass of meteoric iron by the local effect on the magnetic declination.
Has improved the methods of defining and measuring the pro perties of optical instruments, and has devised new forms of lenses and spectroscopes.
In electricity he has worked on alternating currents, and allied problems in telegraph cables, and electrical power transmission. His tables of the hyperbolic functions were published by the Physical Society, and an integrator for measuring them directly has been described in the Philosophical Magazine.
Has invented a portable mercurial barometer (the amphisbeena) having a mercury column of only a few inches. Has written on the properties of the logarithmic spiral, and devised a linkage for developing families of these curves.
Has invented various mechanical methods of solving cubic equations and allied problems.
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Member of Institution of Civil Engineers. Club: Athenaeum.