Of his achievements and their worth, it is
not for me to speak: his friend and partner, Sir William Thomson,
has contributed a note on the subject, which will be found in the
Appendix, and to which I must refer the reader. He is to conceive
in the meanwhile for himself Fleeming's manifold engagements: his
service on the Committee on Electrical Standards, his lectures on
electricity at Chatham, his chair at the London University, his
partnership with Sir William Thomson and Mr. Varley in many
ingenious patents, his growing credit with engineers and men of
science; and he is to bear in mind that of all this activity and
acquist of reputation, the immediate profit was scanty. Soon after
his marriage, Fleeming had left the service of Messrs. Liddell &
Gordon, and entered into a general engineering partnership with
Mr. Forde, a gentleman in a good way of business. It was a
fortunate partnership in this, that the parties retained their
mutual respect unlessened and separated with regret; but men's
affairs, like men, have their times of sickness, and by one of
these unaccountable variations, for hard upon ten years the
business was disappointing and the profits meagre.
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