William Froude William Froude (1810-1879). William Froude (1810-1879) was an English engineer, hydrodynamicist and naval architect. He was the first to formulate reliable laws for the resistance that water offers to ships (such as the hull speed equation) and for predicting their stability. He was the brother of James Anthony Froude, a historian, and Hurrell Froude, writer and priest. 1810 November 28th. Born at Dartington, Devon, England, the son of Robert Froude, Archdeacon of Totnes Educated at Westminster School 1832 Graduation. Attended Oriel College, Oxford, graduating with a first in mathematics His first employment was as a surveyor on the South Eastern Railway which, in 1837, led to Brunel giving him responsibility for the construction of a section of the Bristol and Exeter Railway . It was here that he developed his empirical method of setting out track transition curves and introduced an alternative design to the helicoidal skew arch bridge at Rewe...
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