Fleeming Jenkin
Engineer, Academic
1833 – 1885
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Who was Fleeming Jenkin?
Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin was professor of engineering at the University of Edinburgh, remarkable for his versatility. Known to the world as the inventor of the cable car or telpherage, he was an electrician and cable engineer, economist, lecturer, linguist, critic, actor, dramatist and artist. His descendants include the Tory MPs Patrick, Lord Jenkin of Roding and Bernard Jenkin.
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