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ABSTRACT TO understand the great debt which engineer ing science owes to the late Prof. William Cawthorne Unwin, it must be remembered that it was in 1856 that he started on his engineering career and that it is sixty-five years since he first began to teach engineering. Born at Coggeshall in Essex, on December 12, 1838, Unwin had all the advantages of being brought up in academic surroundings, for his father, Dr. William J. Unwin, was principal of Homerton College. ARTICLE PDF ENJOYING OUR LATEST CONTENT? LOGIN OR CREATE AN ACCOUNT TO CONTINUE * Get immediate access to this article * Also access the latest journalism from Nature's award winning team Access through your institution or Sign in or create an account Continue with Google Continue with ORCiD Authors * S. M. D. View author publications You can also search for this author inPubMed Google Scholar RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS Reprints and permissions ABOUT THIS ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE D., S. Prof. W. C. Unwin, F.R.S. _Nature_ 131, 681–682 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131681a0 Download citation * Issue Date: 13 May 1933 * DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/131681a0 SHARE THIS ARTICLE Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content: Get shareable link Sorry, a shareable link is not currently available for this article. Copy to clipboard Provided by the Springer Nature SharedIt content-sharing initiative

ABSTRACT TO understand the great debt which engineer ing science owes to the late Prof. William Cawthorne Unwin, it must be remembered that it was in 1856 that he started on his engineering


career and that it is sixty-five years since he first began to teach engineering. Born at Coggeshall in Essex, on December 12, 1838, Unwin had all the advantages of being brought up in


academic surroundings, for his father, Dr. William J. Unwin, was principal of Homerton College. ARTICLE PDF ENJOYING OUR LATEST CONTENT? LOGIN OR CREATE AN ACCOUNT TO CONTINUE * Get


immediate access to this article * Also access the latest journalism from Nature's award winning team Access through your institution or Sign in or create an account Continue with


Google Continue with ORCiD Authors * S. M. D. View author publications You can also search for this author inPubMed Google Scholar RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS Reprints and permissions ABOUT THIS


ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE D., S. Prof. W. C. Unwin, F.R.S. _Nature_ 131, 681–682 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131681a0 Download citation * Issue Date: 13 May 1933 * DOI:


https://doi.org/10.1038/131681a0 SHARE THIS ARTICLE Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content: Get shareable link Sorry, a shareable link is not currently


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