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JOHN GOODMAN, who died on October 28, was bom on May 1, 1862, at Royston, Herts, receiving his school education at Gravesend and Cambridge. His engineering training followed the orthodox lines of that period a long apprenticeship of five and a half years, followed by a spell of two years as an assistant to the chief engineer. During this period, by attendance on evening courses and private study, he acquired such a sound knowledge of the scientific principles upon which engineering is based that he was able in 1885 to win a Whitworth scholarship, and entered University College, London, when the chair of engineering was held by Sir Alexander B. W. Kennedy, and in 1886 he became an assistant to his professor.
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B., T. Prof. J. Goodman. Nature 136, 823 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136823a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136823a0