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THE death of MR. JAMES KEITH on February 23, is announced in Engineering for March 4, Mr. Keith was the founder and managing director of the firm of James Keith and Blackman, the well-known heating and ventilating engineers, and much of the apparatus manufactured by his firm was of his invention. He was an associate member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers; he was also the author of numerous publications and contributions to the technical Press. Mr. Keith gave expert evidence in 1897 at the Board of Trade inquiry into the ventilation of the London Underground Railways, and also in 1903–4 before the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the ventilation of the Houses of Parliament.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 107, 51 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107051b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/107051b0