Henry RA Mallock
Henry Reginald Arnulph Mallock , called Arnulph, (born March 12, 1851 in Cheriton Bishop , Devon (England) , † June 26, 1933 ) was an English engineer.
Mallock was the son of the Anglican clergyman William Mallock and studied at Oxford. He then worked for a few years as an assistant to his maternal uncle, the marine engineer William Froude , with whom he built the first experimental tank for ships. In 1876 he was also assistant to the physicist Lord Rayleigh for a few months . He was a consulting engineer. Among other things, he advised the military as a civilian member of the Ordnance Committee (weapons technology, ballistics) and he advised as a civil engineer and railway companies. He developed devices to detect vibrations caused by railways and movements of bridges and St. Paul's Cathedral.
Mallock was the first to experimentally discover Taylor vortices in Taylor-Couette flow in 1888 (in experiments similar to those of Maurice Couette to determine viscosity) and in 1907 before the eponym, the Kármán vortex street .
In 1904 he married Helena Maria Caroline Finlay.
In 1903 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society . In 1926 he was President of the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers .
literature
- CVB: Henry Reginald Arnulph Mallock. 1851-1933 , Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1 (2), 1933, p. 95, digitized, first page
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mallock, Determination of the viscosity of water, Proc. Royal Soc. London, Volume 45, 1888, pp. 126-132
- ↑ Mallock, On the resistance of air, Proc. Royal Soc., A 79, 1907, pp. 262-265
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| SURNAME | Mallock, Henry RA |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mallock, Henry Reginald Arnulph (full name); Mallock, Arnulph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 12, 1851 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cheriton Bishop , Devon (England) |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 26, 1933 |