Sir Charles Edward Inglis, OBE, FRS (31 July 1875 – 19 April 1952) was a British civil engineer. The son of a doctor, he was educated at Cheltenham College and won a scholarship to King's College, Cambridge, where he would later forge a career as an academic. Inglis spent a two-year period with the engineering firm run by John Wolfe-Barry before he returned to King's College as a lecturer. Working with Professors James Alfred Ewing and Bertram Hopkinson, he made several important studies into the effects of vibration on structures and defects on the strength of plate steel.
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Charles Edward Inglis 31 July 1875 Worcester, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom
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19 April 1952 (aged 76) Southwold, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom
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Zodiac | Leo |
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