Charles Inglis
British civil engineer (1875-1952) · United Kingdom · On the map · Scientists · Died at 76
Sir Charles Edward Inglis was a British civil engineer. The son of a medical doctor, he was educated at Cheltenham College and won a scholarship to King's College, Cambridge, where he would later forge a career as an academic.
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An Inglis "pyramid" footbridge variant; a surviving example in Aldershot is Grade II listed
A surviving Inglis Bridge (Mark II) over the River Monnow
The modern Cambridge University Engineering Department is sited on the former Scroope House, acquired for the university by Inglis in 1924.
Telford Medal of the Institution of Civil Engineers like that awarded to Inglis in 1924
Wreckage of the airship R101, the loss of which was investigated by Inglis in 1930
A Mark III Inglis Bridge under construction in 1943Awards
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Inglis spent a two-year period with the engineering firm run by John Wolfe-Barry before he returned to King's College as a lecturer. Working with Professors James Alfred Ewing and Bertram Hopkinson, he made several important studies into the effects of vibration on structures and defects on the strength of plate steel.
