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Revision as of 18:14, 20 October 2014
Thomas Ernest Stanton (1865–1931), mechanical engineer and aerodynamicist.
1865 December 12th. Born at Long Street, Atherstone, Warwickshire, the son of Thomas Stanton, plumber and glazier and his wife Mary Ann Wagstaff.
Educated at Atherstone grammar school
Three-year apprenticeship with the engineering firm of Gimson and Co
1887 Studied at Owens College, Manchester
1891 Obtained B.Sc. (engineering)
1891-96 Remained at the college working as a demonstrator in the Whitworth engineering laboratory under Professor Osborne Reynolds
1896 Went to the University of Liverpool as senior assistant lecturer
1898 Obtained D.Sc.
1899 Appointed professor of civil and mechanical engineering at University College, Bristol.
1901 First superintendent of the engineering department when the National Physical Laboratory was established and remained until his retirement in December 1930.
1912 Married Martha Grace (1878–1953) the daughter of John Child, and they had two sons and one daughter
Stanton supervised researches into hydrodynamics, the strength of materials, heat transmission, and lubrication, was also concerned with the dynamics of air.
1921 Stanton built the first effective supersonic tunnel in the world, 3 inches in diameter, where he could measure the drag of projectiles, and later also of aerofoils, at up to 3.2 times the speed of sound.
1931 August 30th. Died at Pevensy Bay
1931 Obituary.[1]