Editing Fleeming Jenkin (section)

{{Short description|British polymath (1833-1885)}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name              = Fleeming Jenkin
| image             = Fleeming Jenkin.jpg
| birth_date        = {{birth date|df=yes|1833|03|25}}
| birth_place       = [[Dungeness]], [[Kent]], England, UK
| death_date        = {{death date and age|1885|6|12|1833|3|25|df=y}}
| death_place       = [[Edinburgh]], Scotland, UK
| citizenship       = 
| nationality       = 
| alma_mater        = [[University of Genoa]] (M.A.)
[[University of Edinburgh]]
| doctoral_advisor  = 
| doctoral_students = 
| known_for         = [[Telpherage]]
| signature         = 
| footnotes         = 
| field             = 
| work_institutions = [[University of Edinburgh]]
[[University College London]]
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}}
[[File:Fleeming Jenkin's telpher.jpg|thumb|Drawing of the first ever [[aerial tramway]] or telpher, designed and engineered by Fleeming Jenkin. It was installed in [[Glynde]] in [[Sussex]] in 1885 to transport clay, and was finished after Jenkin's death.]]
'''Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin''' [[Royal Society of London|FRS]] [[FRSE]] ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|f|l|ɛ|m|ɪ|ŋ}}; 25 March 1833 – 12 June 1885)<!--full dates in infobox, per MOS--> was a British engineer, inventor, economist, [[linguist]], actor and [[dramatist]] known as the inventor of the cable car or [[Aerial tramway#Telpherage|telpherage]]. He was [[Regius Professor of Engineering (Edinburgh)|Regius Professor of Engineering]] at the [[University of Edinburgh]].<ref name="Cookson">{{cite book |author1=Cookson, G.  |author2=Hempstead, C. A. | title=A Victorian Scientist and Engineer: Fleeming Jenkin and the Birth of Electrical Engineering | location=Aldershot | year=2000 | publisher=Ashgate | isbn=978-0-7546-0079-4 }}</ref> His descendants include the engineer [[Charles Frewen Jenkin]] and through him the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] MPs [[Patrick Jenkin, Baron Jenkin of Roding|Patrick, Lord Jenkin of Roding]] and [[Bernard Jenkin]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Centenary Celebrations: Department of Engineering Science 1908-2008|url=http://www.eng.ox.ac.uk/public-relations/media/literature/newsletter.pdf|work=Newsletter|publisher=Department of Engineering Science, Oxford University|access-date=10 May 2014|year=2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130618062406/http://www.eng.ox.ac.uk/public-relations/media/literature/newsletter.pdf|archive-date=18 June 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>