Sir Joseph Whitworth. At the late meeting of the British Iron and Steel Institute in London the Bessemer Medal for 1880 was conferred upon Sir Joseph Whitworth whose successes as a mechanician have earned for him a world-wide reputation. Sir Joseph was born December 21 1803 at Stockport Cheshire England. At the age of fourteen he entered his uncle's cotton mill in Derbyshire; and in 1821 he proceeded to Manchester where he spent four years in the machine shops of Crighton 4.% Co. and others. He afterwards spent several years in noted London workshops. In 1833 he re turned to Manchester and started business on his own ac count as a manufacturer of engineers' tools. It was here that he first became generally known for superia workman ship and for his inventions for the improvement of machin ery the production of true surfaces etc. His theories on the latter score were announced in a paper read before the British Association at Glasgow in 1840 and during the next ous mechanical inventions and improvements among them the duplex lathe the reversing tool of the planing machine interchangeable nuts and screws and standard gauges. His 1851 where he received the Council Medal for a measuring machine of wonderful delicacy and exactness. He was one of the Royal Commissioners to the World's Fair in this city in 1853 and on his return he undertook for the British Govern ment the construction of machinery for the improved pro duction of firearms. Since that time he has been one of the leading exponents of the science of gunnery He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1857 and has won several grand prizes at international exhibitions for improvement in cannon and in the working of steel. His strongest claim for permanent favor and honor rests how ever upon the 'Whitworth Scholarships' which he founded in 1869 for the encouragement of mechanical and engineer ing science. These scholarships are thirty in number of $500 Another Mathematical Prodigy. An eleven year old boy Jacqu
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