People from Olton - Felicity Kendal, Frederick W. Lanchester, Johnnie Walker, Bernard Quaife, Edith Holden, Alfred Hill (Paperback)

Chapters: Felicity Kendal, Frederick W. Lanchester, Johnnie Walker, Bernard Quaife, Edith Holden, Alfred Hill. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 38. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Frederick William Lanchester, Hon FRAeS (October 23, 1868 March 8, 1946) was an English polymath and engineer who made important contributions to automotive engineering, aerodynamics and co-invented the field of operations research. He was also a pioneer British motor car builder, a hobby he eventually turned into a successful car company, and is considered one of the "big three" English car engineers, the others being Harry Ricardo and Henry Royce. Lanchester was born at Lewisham, London to Henry Jones Lanchester, an architect, and his wife Octavia, a tutor. He was the fourth of eight children. When he was a year old, his father moved the family to Brighton, and young Frederick attended a preparatory school and a nearby boarding school, where he did not distinguish himself. He himself, looking back remarked that, it seemed that Nature was conserving his energy. However, he did succeed in winning a scholarship to the Hartley Institution, in Southampton, and after three years won another scholarship, to, what is now, part of Imperial College, Kensington. He supplemented his instruction in applied engineering by attending evening classes at Finsbury Technical School. Unfortunately, he ended his education without having obtained a formal qualification. When he completed his education in 1888, he took a job as a Patent Office draughtsman for 3 a week. About this time he took out a patent for an isometrograph, a draughtsmans instrument for hatching, shading and other geometrical design work. In 1919, at the age of fifty-one, Lanchester married Dorothea Cooper, the daughter of Thomas Cooper, the vicar of St P...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=420521