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   Kirkaldy
   David
   D. K. ;
   Ann Amelia Kirkaldy, before 1861; cf. http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=allgs&gsfn=David&gsln=Kirkaldy&gss=seo&ghc=20 ;
   William G. Kirkaldy, see his book: Illustrations of D.K.'s System of Mechanical Testing (London, 1891), esp. 'Historical Sketch', pp. 266-302
   1820 in Dundee, Scotland, UK
   1897
   Southwark, London
   scottish merchant
   grandson David Kirkaldy jun.
   in Robert Napier’s Vulcan Foundry Works in Glasgow, he moved from workshop to drawing office
   United Kingdom
   until 1861 for Robert Napier’s Vulcan Foundry Works in Glasgow ; Results of an Experimental Inquiry into the Comparative Tensile Strength and other properties of various kinds of Wrought-Iron and Steel (1862) ; The Imperial Cyclopaedia of Machinery ( 1851) ;
   London Great Exhibition 1851 ; Paris World Exhibition 1855 ; Royal Academy (exhibition of his drawings of an iron ship, 1861) ;
   engraver ->J. W. Lowry ;
   fine technical pen-and-ink, drawing, and watercolour ;
   http://origin-ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0160932713000215-gr1.jpg ; http://cache2.artprintimages.com/p/MED/40/4013/PQJWF00Z/art-print/david
   www.testingmuseum.org.uk/ ; http://members.optusnet.com.au/jph8524/JHfacts_not_opinions.htm ;
   Frances Robertson: D. K. & his museum of destruction, Endeavour 37, (3) 2013:125-32 ; Julian Holland: Facts not opinions, The Australian Metrologist 17 (June 1999): 9-12 ; Denis Smith: D. K. & Engineering Materials Testing, Transactions of the Newcomen Society 52 (1980/81): 49-65 ;
   Scottish engineer pioneering testing of materials. He established a test house in Southwark, London; cf. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VmUSAAAAIAAJ&dq=Kirkaldy,+Experimental+Inquiry+into+the+Comparative+Tensile+Strength+and+other+properties+of+various+kinds+of+Wrought-Iron+and+Steel
   102978540
   210493551
   37695745







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