# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fleeming-jenkin
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:11:23.419Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fleeming-jenkin"
name: "Fleeming Jenkin"
slug: "fleeming-jenkin"
description: "Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin FRS FRSE was a British engineer, inventor, economist, linguist, actor and dramatist known as the inventor of the cable car or telpherage. He was Regius Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. His descendants include the engineer Charles Frewen Jenkin and through him the Conservative MPs Patrick, Lord Jenkin of Roding and Bernard Jenkin."
tagline: "Scottish engineer (1833-1885)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fleeming_Jenkin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1833-03-25"
deathDate: "1885-06-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.39
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.015948
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "فليمنغ جينكن"
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    title: "Fleeming Jenkin"
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    title: "Fleeming Jenkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleeming_Jenkin"
    title: "Fleeming Jenkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Fleeming Jenkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Fleeming Jenkin"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump