Fleeming Jenkin
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Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin FRS FRSE was a British engineer, inventor, economist, linguist, actor and dramatist known as the inventor of the cable car or telpherage. He was Regius Professor of Engin
Fleeming Jenkin
Drawing of the first ever aerial tramway or telpher, designed and engineered by Fleeming Jenkin. It was installed in Glynde in Sussex in 1885 to transport clay, and was finished after Jenkin's death.
Plaque to Fleeming Jenkin, King's Buildings, Edinburgh
Alfred Marshall
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Alfred Marshall was an English economist and one of the most influential economists of his time. His book Principles of Economics was the dominant economic textbook in England for many years, and brou
Fleeming Jenkin
…from a shifts of a curve), welfare analysis, application to the labour market, and market-period and long-run distinctions. It was later popularised by Alfred Marshall and remains arguably the most famous graphic in economics. In 1878 Jenkin made a contribution to public health with his pamphlet Healthy Houses. "This…
Marshall, c. the release of Principles (1890)
Marshall, age 79, as seen in Keynes' obituary
Elements of Economics of Industry, 1892