John Hopkinson, FRS, was a British physicist, electrical engineer, Fellow of the Royal Society and President of the IEE twice in 1890 and 1896. He invented the three-wire system for the distribution o
Edward Hopkinson was a British civil, mechanical and electrical engineer, and Conservative politician.
John Hopkinson
…been an active mountaineer in the alps for some years before that. He had made a number of significant alpine ascents with his brothers, Charles and Edward, his son Bertram and daughter Alice had joined him on some of those ascents. His climbing included some first ascents and new routes undertaken without…