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	William John Macquorn Rankine - LoveToKnow 1911
		WILLIAM JOHN MACQUORN RANKINE (1820-1872), Scottish engineer and physicist, was born at Edinburgh on the 5th of July 1820, and completed his education in its university.
		He was an enthusiastic and most useful leader of the volunteer movement from its beginning, and a writer, composer and singer of humorous and patriotic songs, some of which, as "The Three Foot Rule" and "They never shall have Gibraltar," became well known far beyond the circle of his acquaintance.
		Rankine was the earliest of the three founders of the modern science of Thermodynamics on the bases laid by Sadi Carnot and J. Joule respectively, and the author of the first formal treatise on the subject.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /William_John_Macquorn_Rankine (269 words)

	William John Macquorn Rankine Summary
		William Rankine has been credited with many things derived from his brilliant career, with perhaps the most unique being the transition of his empirical work into scientific theories published for the benefit of engineering students.
		Rankine's works placed him among the greatest of many famous scholars at the University of Glasgow—from Adam Smith in modern economic science, to James Watt with his invention of the double acting steam engine, to Rankine's peer in thermodynamics, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), after whom the absolute scale of temperature was named.
		Rankine was a member of the board of enquiry into the sinking of the HMS Captain.
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	William John Macquorn Rankine - LoveToKnow 1911
		WILLIAM JOHN MACQUORN RANKINE (1820-1872), Scottish engineer and physicist, was born at Edinburgh on the 5th of July 1820, and completed his education in its university.
		He was an enthusiastic and most useful leader of the volunteer movement from its beginning, and a writer, composer and singer of humorous and patriotic songs, some of which, as "The Three Foot Rule" and "They never shall have Gibraltar," became well known far beyond the circle of his acquaintance.
		Rankine was the earliest of the three founders of the modern science of Thermodynamics on the bases laid by Sadi Carnot and J. Joule respectively, and the author of the first formal treatise on the subject.
	70.1911encyclopedia.org /R/RA/RANKINE_WILLIAM_JOHN_MACQUORN.htm (269 words)

	Rankine biography
		William Rankine's mother was Barbara Grahame, the daughter of a Glasgow banker, and his father was David Rankine, a civil engineer and lieutenant in the rifle brigade.
		Rankine apparently regarded energy, as we do today, as being classified into two kinds, viz., kinetic and potential, and his thermodynamic theory was developed by considering the transformation of one into the other.
		Rankine also wrote on fatigue in the metal of railway axles, on earth pressures in soil mechanics, and the stability of walls.
	www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk /Biographies/Rankine.html (1000 words)

	William Rankine - A Leader in Early Thermodynamics
		William John MacQuorn Rankine was born July 5, 1820, in Edinburgh, Aryshire, Scotland.
		In 1836, while attending the University of Edinburgh, Rankine was awarded a gold medal for his essay on the undulating theory of light, and in 1838, he won another medal for his essay on methods of investigation.
		Rankine is perhaps best remembered for the Rankine cycle which describes the changes in pressure and temperature of water in a steam engine.
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	Geotechnical Engineering Hall of Fame: Rankine
		William John Maquorn Rankine is a name engraved in scientific annals throughout the world.
		Rankine is best known for his accomplishments in thermodynamics (description of the operational cycle of an ideal engine using steam or another vapor) and soil mechanics (earth pressure theory).
		On December 3, 1855, at the age of 35, Rankine was appointed by the Queen’s Commission to the Chair of Civil Engineering and Mechanics at Glasgow - a Regius Chair established by royal decree.
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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/William John Macquorn Rankine
		Rankine developed a complete theory of the steam engine and indeed of all heat engines.
		Rankine was initially educated at home owing to his poor health but he later attended Ayr Academy (1828-9) and the High School of Glasgow (1830).
		Rankine attempted to apply his complex and controversial hypothesis of molecular vortices to the phenomena of birefringence (possibly motivated by the earlier work of Forbes) and of elasticity but without success.
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	AllRefer.com - Rankine temperature scale (Physics) - Encyclopedia
		Rankine temperature scale, temperature scale having an absolute zero, below which temperatures do not exist, and using a degree of the same size as that used by the Fahrenheit temperature scale.
		Absolute zero, or 0°R, is the temperature at which molecular energy is a minimum, and it corresponds to a temperature of -459.67°F. Because the Rankine degree is the same size as the Fahrenheit degree, the freezing point of water (32°F) and the boiling point of water (212°F) correspond to 491.67°R and 671.67°R, respectively.
		The temperature scale is named after the Scottish engineer and physicist William John Macquorn Rankine, who proposed it in 1859.
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	Rankine, William John Macquorn, 1820-1872, engineer
		Rankine emphasised the mutual dependence and harmony between sound theory and good practice, and he was responsible for establishing the University's famous sandwich courses in co-operation with leading industrialists in Scotland.
		William John Macquorn Rankine was the son of David Rankine, a railway manager, and Barbara, daughter of Archibald Grahame, banker, of Glasgow.
		Rankine in 1850, and Clausius in the same year, showed in very different ways the nature of the further modifications which Carnot's theory required.
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	NAHSTE: Papers of William John MacQuorn Rankine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		William John MacQuorn Rankine (1820-1872) was one of the founders of the study of thermodynamics and the first to formally publish scientific results in this discipline.
		Rankine also served in the Rifle Corp Volunteers, rising to the rank of Senior Major before resigning his post.
		Rankine was elected Fellow of the Royal Society 1853, he was awarded the Keith Medal by the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1854 and was first president of the Institute of Engineers in Scotland from 1857.
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	Rankine, William John Macquorn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Rankine was born in Edinburgh and trained as a civil engineer.
		In A Manual of the Steam Engine and other Prime Movers 1859, Rankine described a thermodynamic cycle of events (the Rankine cycle), which came to be used as a standard for the performance of steam-power installations where a considerable vapour provides the working fluid.
		Rankine here explained how a liquid in the boiler vaporized by the addition of heat converts part of this energy into mechanical energy when the vapour expands in an engine.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/biographies/MainBiographies/R/Rankine/1.html (165 words)

	Rankine William John Macquorn: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
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		William John Macquorn Rankine used it as the basis of his absolute temperature scale, now called the Rankine temperature scale, in 1859.
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	Rankine - Homedistiller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Rankine is a now rarely used temperature scale named after the ScotlandScottish engineer and physicist William John Macquorn Rankine, who proposed it in 1859.
		Like kelvin, Rankine zero is absolute zero, but Fahrenheit degrees are used.
		As a result, a difference of 1 °Ra is equal to a difference of 1 °F, but 0 °Ra is −459.67 °F. The Rankine cycle is an idealised Thermodynamic cycle for a steam engine - ie one using water as the working fluid.
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	MET 140 THERMODYNAMICS FOR ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		William John Macquorn Rankine (1820-1872), Scottish engineer and physicist, was born July 2, 1820, Edinburgh, Scotland.
		Rankine workd out a thermodynamic cycle of events (now called the Rankine cycle) that became a standard for the performance of steam-power installations.
		Rankine also studied forces in frame structures, molecular physics and undertook pioneering work in soil mechanics, considering earth pressures and the stability of retaining walls.
	gaia.ecs.csus.edu /~reardonf/MET140/NotesonRankine.htm (180 words)

	1.3.6.4 William John Macquorn Rankine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Rankine was well rounded interested beside the energy field he was also interested in civil engineering, strength of materials, and naval engineering in which he was involved in applying scientific principles to building ships.
		Rankine was born in Edinburgh to British Army lieutenant David Rankine and Barbara Grahame, Rankine.
		Rankine never married, and his only brother and parents died before him.
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	Poet: William John Macquorn Rankine - All poems of William John Macquorn Rankine
		Poet: William John Macquorn Rankine - All poems of William John Macquorn Rankine
		William J. Macquorn Rankine was born in Edinburgh on July 5th.
		William John Macquorn Rankine (July 5, 1820 - December 24, 1872) was a Scottish engineer and physicist.
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	William John Macquorn Rankine
		William John Macquorn Rankine (1820 — 1872) was a Scottish engineer and physicist.
		His research included: forces in frame structures, molecular physics, metal fatigue[?], soil mechanics, earth pressures, and the stability of retaining walls.
		Rankine was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1853.
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	Rankine, William John Macquorn
		Trained as a civil engineer under Sir John Benjamin MacNeill, Rankine was appointed to the Queen Victoria chair of civil engineering and mechanics at the University of Glasgow (1855).
		One of Rankine's first scientific works, a paper on fatigue in metals of railway axles (1843), led to new methods of construction.
		Rankine cycle) used as a standard for the performance of steam-power installations in which
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	Overview of William John Macquorn Rankine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Born in Edinburgh, Rankine became Professor of Civil engineering and Mechanics at the University of Glasgow in 1855.
		Rankine also undertook pioneering work in soil mechanics, considering earth pressures and the stability of retaining walls.
		He died in Glasgow and his name is remembered in the principle known as the Rankine cycle, which he developed and is used as a thermodynamic standard for rating the performance of steam turbines.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/people/famousfirst839.html (156 words)

	References for Rankine
		J B Henderson, Macquorn Rankine : professor of civil engineering and mechanics in the University of Glasgow, 1855 to 1872 : an oration (Glasgow, 1932).
		H B Sutherland, Rankine : his life and times : lecture delivered before the British Geotechnical Society at the University of Glasgow on 13 December 1972 to mark the centenary of the death on 24 December 1872 of William John Macquorn Rankine (London, 1973).
		William John Macquorn Rankine, Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Science 1 (1873-4), 276-278.
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	References for Rankine
		J B Henderson, Macquorn Rankine : professor of civil engineering and mechanics in the University of Glasgow, 1855 to 1872 : an oration (Glasgow, 1932).
		H B Sutherland, Rankine : his life and times : lecture delivered before the British Geotechnical Society at the University of Glasgow on 13 December 1972 to mark the centenary of the death on 24 December 1872 of William John Macquorn Rankine (London, 1973).
		William John Macquorn Rankine, Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Science 1 (1873-4), 276-278.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/References/Rankine.html (236 words)

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