Rankine William - translation to γαλλικά
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Rankine William - translation to γαλλικά

CIVIL ENGINEER
William John MacQuorn Rankine; William Macquorn Rankine; John Macquorn Rankine; W. J. Macquorn Rankine; William John Macquorn Rankine; Macquorn Rankine

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William Rankine (1820-72), Scottish engineer and physicist
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Rankine, family name; William Rankine (1820-72), Scottish engineer and physicist, namesake for Rankine temperature scale
William Rankine         
William Rankine (1820-72), Scottish engineer and physicist, namesake for Rankine temperature scale

Ορισμός

Herschelian
·adj Of or relating to Sir William Herschel; as, the Herschelian telescope.

Βικιπαίδεια

William Rankine

William John Macquorn Rankine (; 5 July 1820 – 24 December 1872) was a Scottish mechanical engineer who also contributed to civil engineering, physics and mathematics. He was a founding contributor, with Rudolf Clausius and William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), to the science of thermodynamics, particularly focusing on its First Law. He developed the Rankine scale, an equivalent to the Kelvin scale of temperature, but in degrees Fahrenheit rather than Celsius.

Rankine developed a complete theory of the steam engine and indeed of all heat engines. His manuals of engineering science and practice were used for many decades after their publication in the 1850s and 1860s. He published several hundred papers and notes on science and engineering topics, from 1840 onwards, and his interests were extremely varied, including, in his youth, botany, music theory and number theory, and, in his mature years, most major branches of science, mathematics and engineering.

He was an enthusiastic amateur singer, pianist and cellist who composed his own humorous songs.