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Aeronautical Research at the University of Southampton

Part of: RAeS Lanchester Lecture Papers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

E. J. Richards
E. J. Richards*
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Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, University of Southampton
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F. W. Lanchester obtained his first technical education at the Hartley Institute in Southampton, later to become the University of Southampton, during the years 1886–89. His autobiography describes in vivid terms the primitive nature of the workshop and apparatus available. He would indeed be shocked at the wealth of modern equipment now encountered in engineering departments of a University. At the same time, no one can possibly say that this lack of equipment influenced his pioneer spirit or his extraordinary clarity of thought, not only in the fields of aeronautical and automobile engineering, but also in subjects as diverse as the musical scale, poetry and even relativity.

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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 69 , Issue 656 , August 1965 , pp. 505 - 541
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1965

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