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HENRY FOWLER, who died on October 16, at the age of sixty-eight years, was born at Evesham on July 29, 1870. His technical education started at the Mason Science College, Birmingham, and was continued at the Railway Mechanic's Institute at Horwich during his apprenticeship in the locomotive works of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. Whilst at Horwich, Fowler gained the first Whitworth Exhibition to be awarded to a student of the Institute. After service under Sir John Aspinall, with whom he was associated in a series of classic experiments on train resistance, Fowler left Horwich to become gas engineer of the Midland Railway at Derby, where, a few years later, he became works manager of the locomotive works, under R. M. Deeley, whom he eventually succeeded as chief mechanical engineer in 1909. During the Great War, Fowler successively held the positions of director of production, Ministry of Munitions ; superintendent of the Royal Aircraft Factory, Farnborough ; and assistant director-general of aircraft production, Ministry of Munitions ; for these services he was created C.B.E. in 1917 and K.B.E. in 1918.
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H., T. Sir Henry Fowler, K.B.E. Nature 142, 985–986 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142985a0
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