page_title: Fleeming Jenkin
hierarchical_section_title: Fleeming Jenkin
caption_attribution_description: English: This is a drawing of the telpher designed and engineered by Fleeming Jenkin -- the first telpher ever. It was installed in Glynde, UK in 1885-- finished after Jenkin's death. Image found cut from book at a bookstall in Cambridge, UK --labeled from above source.
context_page_description: Prof Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin FRS FRSE LLD was Regius Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh, remarkable for his versatility. Known to the world as the inventor of the cable car or telpherage, he was an electrician and cable engineer, economist, lecturer, linguist, critic, actor, dramatist and artist. His descendants include the engineer Charles Frewen Jenkin and through him the Conservative MPs Patrick, Lord Jenkin of Roding and Bernard Jenkin.
context_section_description: Prof Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin FRS FRSE LLD (/ˈflɛmɪŋ/; 25 March 1833 – 12 June 1885) was Regius Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh, remarkable for his versatility. Known to the world as the inventor of the cable car or telpherage, he was an electrician and cable engineer, economist, lecturer, linguist, critic, actor, dramatist and artist. His descendants include the engineer Charles Frewen Jenkin and through him the Conservative MPs Patrick, Lord Jenkin of Roding and Bernard Jenkin.
caption: Drawing of the telpher designed and engineered by Fleeming Jenkin – the first telpher ever. It was installed in Glynde, UK in 1885-- finished after Jenkin's death.
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