Jenkin, Henry Charles Fleeming (1833–1885)

English engineer. With the Irish physicist William Thomson, he made experiments in the manufacture and use of electric cables in 1859. His research of gutta-percha was valuable in developing electrical insulation. He also invented telpherage, an electric automatic system for transporting goods. He was appointed professor of engineering at University College, London, in 1865 and at Edinburgh University in 1868. He published Magnetism and Electricity (1873). Jenkin was born near Dungeness, England.