The volume of Reports included Jenkin's Cantor
Lectures of January, 1866, 'On Submarine Telegraphy,' through which
the practical applications of the scientific principles for which
he had worked so devotedly for eight years became part of general
knowledge in the engineering profession.
Jenkin's scientific activity continued without abatement to the
end. For the last two years of his life he was much occupied with
a new mode of electric locomotion, a very remarkable invention of
his own, to which he gave the name of 'Telpherage.' He persevered
with endless ingenuity in carrying out the numerous and difficult
mechanical arrangements essential to the project, up to the very
last days of his work in life. He had completed almost every
detail of the realisation of the system which was recently opened
for practical working at Glynde, in Sussex, four months after his
death.
His book on 'Magnetism and Electricity,' published as one of
Longman's elementary series in 1873, marked a new departure in the
exposition of electricity, as the first text-book containing a
systematic application of the quantitative methods inaugurated by
the British Association Committee on Electrical Standards.
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