page_title: Asa Binns
section_title: Early life and career
hierarchical_section_title: Asa Binns / Early life and career
caption_attribution_description: English: Whitworth Scholarship medal presented on completion of a successful Scholarship
context_page_description: Asa Binns was a British mechanical and civil engineer. He trained with hydraulic pump and engine makers before becoming a draughtsman. Binns worked for a period at HMS Chatham Dockyard and rose to become head of their civil engineering works. He later worked on the construction of several major docks in London, including for the Port of London Authority. Binns served as president of the Institution of Engineers-in-Charge and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He was elected president of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1946 but died before he could take office.
context_section_description: Asa Binns was born on 3 October 1873 in Keighley, Yorkshire.  He was educated at Keighley Grammar School, the Technical College, Keighley, and Yorkshire College, Leeds. Binns afterwards undertook a three-year engineering pupillage with the Leeds hydraulic pump maker Tannett, Walker & Company and the Bradford engine maker Cole, Marchent, and Morley Ltd.  During his pupillage he was awarded a Whitworth scholarship.
  After qualifying Binns was employed as a draughtsman by the Ipswich agricultural machinery manufacturer Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies and the North Eastern Railway's Hull dockyard.  He was appointed draughtsman in the Admiralty Works Department in 1898 and became their chief draughtsman at HM Dockyard Chatham in 1901.  Binns was promoted to assistant civil engineer of the dockyard in 1902, the same year he was elected a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE).  In 1903 he was elected an associate member of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) and was later given charge of all civil engineering works at the dockyard.
caption: Medal of the Whitworth scholarship
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