Sir William Fairbairn

Sir William Fairbairn (February 19, 1789 - August 18, 1874) was a Scottish engineer. Sir WIlliam Fairbairn (source http://www. ... February 19 is the 50th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1789 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... August 18 is the 230th day of the year (231st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1874 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Timeline of Scottish history Caledonia List of not fully sovereign nations Subdivisions of Scotland National parks (Scotland) Traditional music of Scotland Flower of Scotland Wars of Scottish Independence National Trust for Scotland Historic houses in Scotland Castles in Scotland Museums in Scotland Abbeys and priories in Scotland Gardens in Scotland... Look up engineer on Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Born in Kelso to a local farmer, Fairbairn showed an early mechanical aptitude and served as an apprentice mill-wright in Newcastle upon Tyne where he befriended the young George Stephenson. He moved to Manchester in 1813 to work for Adam Parkinson and Thomas Hewes. In 1817, he launched his mill-machinery business with James Lillie. The centre of Kelso with its cobbled square. ... Farmer spreading grasshopper bait in his alfalfa field. ... If youre looking for the TV show, see The Apprentice. ... This article is about a city in the United Kingdom. ... George Stephenson Statue of George Stephenson at the National Railway Museum, York George Stephenson (9 June 1781 – 12 August 1848) was a British engineer who designed a famous and historically important steam-powered locomotive named Rocket, and is known as the Father of British Steam Railways. ... Manchester is a city in the North West of England. ... 1813 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1817 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...

Fairbairn was a life-long learner and joined the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1830. In the early years of the following decade, he and Eaton Hodgkinson conducted a search for an optimal cross-section for iron-beams. Thus, in the 1840s, when Robert Stephenson, the son of his youthful friend George, conceived the novel tubular design for the Britannia Bridge, connecting Anglesey to mainland Britain, he retained both Fairbairn and Hodgkinson as consultants. A similar design was used at Conway but ultimately proved too costly a concept for widespread use. The Institutions headquarters Founded on 2 January 1818, the Institution of Civil Engineers (the ICE) is an independent professional association, based in central London, representing civil engineers. ... 1830 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Eaton A. Hodgkinson (February 26, 1789 - June 18, 1861) was an English engineer, a pioneer of the application of mathematics to problems of structural design. ... Cross section may refer to the following In geometry, Cross section is the intersection of a 3-dimensional body with a plane. ... General Name, Symbol, Number iron, Fe, 26 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 8, 4, d Appearance lustrous metallic with a grayish tinge Atomic mass 55. ... A statically determinate beam, bending under an evenly distributed load. ... // Events and Trends Technology First use of anaesthesia in an operation, by Crawford Long War, peace and politics First signing of the Treaty of Waitangi (Te Tiriti o Waitangi) on February 6, 1840 at Waitangi New Zealand. ... Statue of Robert Stephenson at Euston Station, London Robert Stephenson FRS (October 16, 1803–October 12, 1859) was an English civil engineer. ... Britannia Bridge from the east along the Menai Strait Section of the original wrought-iron tubular bridge standing in front of the modern bridge Monumental lion, one of four guarding each corner of Britannia Bridge Britannia Bridge is a bridge across the Menai Strait between the island of Anglesey and... Anglesey (Welsh: Ynys Môn, pronounced (IPA), roughly unniss mawn), is an island and county at the north western extremity of north Wales. ... Conway can refer to any of the following: // People David Conway Deborah Conway Derek Conway Elias Nelson Conway Gerry Conway Henry Seymour Conway Henry Wharton Conway James Conway James Sevier Conway Jill Ker Conway Jimmy Conway John Conway, mathematician Jon Conway Lynn Conway Moncure Daniel Conway Rob Conway Sean Conway...

When the cotton industry fell into recession, Fairbairn diversified into the manufacture of boilers for locomotives and into shipbuilding. Fairbairn drew on his experience with the Britannia and Conway tubular bridges to pioneer the construction of iron-hulled ships. Perceiving a ship as a floating tubular beam, he criticised existing design standards dictated by Lloyds of London and proved his ideas at his Millwall shipyard with the Lord Dundas. Cotton is a soft fiber that grows around the seeds of the cotton plant, a shrub native to the tropical and subtropical regions of both the Old World and the New World. ... A recession is usually defined in macroeconomics as a fall of a countrys real Gross Domestic Product in two or more successive quarters of a year. ... A boiler is a closed vessel in which water or other fluid is heated under pressure. ... A locomotive (from lat. ... Men from Francisco de Orellanas expedition building a small brigantine, the San Pedro, to be used in the search for food Shipbuilding is the construction of ships. ... General Name, Symbol, Number iron, Fe, 26 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 8, 4, d Appearance lustrous metallic with a grayish tinge Atomic mass 55. ... Lloyds of London is a British insurance market. ... Millwall Docks Millwall is an area in London, on the Isle of Dogs, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. ... The Marquess of Zetland (Shetland) is a title in the peerage of the United Kingdom created for Laurence Dundas, 2nd Earl of Zetland along with the title Earl of Ronaldshay on 22 August 1892. ...

Faibairn developed the Lancashire boiler in 1844. In 1861, at the request of the UK Parliament and again parallelling work by Hodgkinson, he conducted early research into metal fatigue, raising and lowering a 3 tonne mass onto a wrought iron cylinder 3,000,000 times before it fractured and showing that a static load of 12 tonne was needed for such an effect. 1844 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1861 is a common year starting on Tuesday. ... The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative institution in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories (it alone has parliamentary sovereignty). ... In materials science, fatigue is a process by which a material is weakened by cyclic loading. ... A tonne, sometimes known as metric ton in American English, (symbol t) is a unit of mass. ... Wrought iron is a very pure form of commercial iron, having a very small carbon content. ... For fractures in bones, see Fracture (bone). ... A tonne, sometimes known as metric ton in American English, (symbol t) is a unit of mass. ...

William Fairbairn is the Great Great Great Great Grandfather of the less-well known Civil Engineer, Robert Fairbairn (b. 16th May 1984), who's accalades include a trip to a Robert Wiseman milk factory. Robert's other main conquests include Charlotte Marshall, from whom he obtained 'scrotrot'. Robert currently attends Birmingham University in an effort to follow in his ancestor's prestigous footsteps. Charlotte Marshall (b. ...

Honours

• President of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, (1855-1860);
• Baronet, (1869);
• A statue stands in Manchester Town Hall.

He has a daughter at the age of 5 by the name of Paige Fairbairn The Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society is a learned society in Manchester, England. ... 1855 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1860 is the leap year starting on Sunday. ... A baronet (traditional abbreviation Bart, modern abbreviation Bt) is the holder of a British title, known as a baronetcy. ... 1869 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Manchester Town Hall Manchester Town Hall is a building in Manchester, England that houses the citys government and administrative functions. ...

Works

• An Account of the Construction of the Britannia and Conway Tubular Bridges, (1849)
• Experiments to determine the effect of impact, vibratory action, and long continued changes of load on wrought iron girders, (1864) Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London vol. 154, p311
• Treatise on Iron Shipbuilding, (1865)
• The Life of Sir William Fairbairn, Bart., (ed. W. Pole, 1877)

External links

• The Lancashire boiler