Author:Frederick William Lanchester

Frederick William Lanchester
(1868–1946)

Frederick William Lanchester

Works

Books

• Aerial Flight
  • Vol. 1: Aerodynamics (1906)
  • Vol. 2: Aerodonetics (1908) (Commons file)
• "The Flying Machine From An Engineering Standpoint." The James Forrest Lecture, 1914. (Commons file)
• Aircraft in Warfare: The Dawn of the Fourth Arm (1916) (transcription project)

As Paul Netherton-Herries

• The Centenarian: a Lakeland story told in verse; Limited ed. of 640 copies. (1935)
• A King's Prayer and Other Poems; published by the author for private circulation (1936)

Papers

• "The Soaring of birds and the possibilities of mechanical flight" - presented to the Birmingham Natural History and Philosophical Society in June 1894
• III. The radial cursor: a new addition to the slide-rule (1896) The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, Series 5, Volume 41, Issue 248, pp. 52-59 doi:10.1080/14786449608620808
• XXXII. The pendulum accelerometer, an instrument for the direct measurement and recording of acceleration (1905) The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, Volume 10, Issue 56, pp. 260-268 doi:10.1080/14786440509463370
• Some Problems Peculiar to the Design of the Automobile (1907) Proceedings of the Institution of Automobile Engineers doi:10.1243/PIAE_PROC_1907_002_010_02
• Tractive Effort and Acceleration of Automobile Vehicles on Land, Air and Water (1909) Proceedings of the Institution of Automobile Engineers, vol. iv., pp. 123–166 (Commons file)
• "Flight of Birds" The Engineer, 19 February 1909, pp.198-9, and 26 February 1909, pp.225-6 Summary of paper given to Birmingham Natural History and Philosophical Society, 19 January 1909
• Contra-Props, 11 December 1941 Flight magazine, pp. 418-419

See also

• List of publications