Centenaries, '62: II. J. M. RANKINE

Abstract

IN 1862 W. J. M. Rankine, Professor of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at Glasgow University published his ‘Manual of Civil Engineering’, a stout volume of 784 pages costing 16s. He had already written ‘The Steam Engine and Other Prime Movers’ three years earlier, and they became standard textbooks, ‘Civil Engineering’ reaching a 15th edition in 1885 and ‘The Steam Engine’, a 13th in 1891; even now students can read them with profit.

Citation

(1962), "Centenaries, '62: II. J. M. RANKINE", Education + Training, Vol. 4 No. 3, pp. 31-31. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb015102