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class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Eaton Hodgkinson</div><div class="honorific-suffix" style="font-size: 77%; font-weight: normal;"><a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society" title="Fellow of the Royal Society">FRS</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1789-02-26</span>)</span>26 February 1789<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Anderton_with_Marbury" title="Anderton with Marbury">Anderton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Northwich" title="Northwich">Northwich</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cheshire" title="Cheshire">Cheshire</a>, England</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">18 June 1861<span style="display:none">(1861-06-18)</span> (aged 72)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/Higher_Broughton" class="mw-redirect" title="Higher Broughton">Higher Broughton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Salford,_Greater_Manchester" class="mw-redirect" title="Salford, Greater Manchester">Salford</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lancashire" title="Lancashire">Lancashire</a>, England</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/England" title="England">English</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role"><a href="/wiki/Engineer" title="Engineer">Engineer</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Eaton Hodgkinson</b> <a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society" title="Fellow of the Royal Society">FRS</a> (26 February 1789 – 18 June 1861) was an <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">English</a> <a href="/wiki/Engineer" title="Engineer">engineer</a>, a pioneer of the application of <a href="/wiki/Mathematics" title="Mathematics">mathematics</a> to problems of structural design. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eaton_Hodgkinson&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Hodgkinson was born in the village of <a href="/wiki/Anderton_with_Marbury" title="Anderton with Marbury">Anderton</a>, near <a href="/wiki/Northwich" title="Northwich">Northwich</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cheshire" title="Cheshire">Cheshire</a>, to a <a href="/wiki/Farming" class="mw-redirect" title="Farming">farming</a> family. His father died when he was six years old, and he was raised with his two sisters by his mother, who maintained the farming business. She sent her son to <a href="/wiki/Witton_Grammar_School" class="mw-redirect" title="Witton Grammar School">Witton Grammar School</a> in <a href="/wiki/Northwich" title="Northwich">Northwich</a> where he studied the <a href="/wiki/Classics" title="Classics">classics</a> with the intention that he would fulfill the family's ambition that he prepare for a career in the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_England" title="Church of England">Church of England</a>. Unfortunately, the regime was unsuited to his tastes and talents which were already showing promise in mathematics. His mother moved him to a less prestigious private school in Northwich where his enthusiasm for mathematics was encouraged and fostered but, as the young Hodgkinson grew physically, he became indispensable on the family farm and soon left education to devote himself there. </p><p>However, farming was no more to his taste than <a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a> and <a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a> and his mother yearned to satisfy her son's appetites. Family friends advised that Hodgkinson might find some more suitable outlet in nearby <a href="/wiki/Manchester" title="Manchester">Manchester</a> and so, in 1811, the family left for <a href="/wiki/Salford,_Greater_Manchester" class="mw-redirect" title="Salford, Greater Manchester">Salford</a> to open a <a href="/wiki/Pawnbroking" class="mw-redirect" title="Pawnbroking">pawnbroking</a> business. Hodgkinson used all his spare time in reading <a href="/wiki/Science" title="Science">science</a> and mathematics and soon introduced himself into Manchester's scientific community, meeting, among others, his future collaborator, Sir <a href="/wiki/William_Fairbairn" title="William Fairbairn">William Fairbairn</a>. He became a pupil of <a href="/wiki/John_Dalton" title="John Dalton">John Dalton</a>, studying mathematics, and the two remained firm friends until Dalton's death in 1844. He retired early from the family business to devote a modest pension to his scientific work. </p><p>He married twice, to Catherine Johns and to a Miss Holditch. There were no children. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Scientific_work">Scientific work</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eaton_Hodgkinson&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Scientific work"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hodgkinson_Experiment_on_column.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Hodgkinson_Experiment_on_column.jpg/220px-Hodgkinson_Experiment_on_column.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="139" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Hodgkinson_Experiment_on_column.jpg/330px-Hodgkinson_Experiment_on_column.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Hodgkinson_Experiment_on_column.jpg/440px-Hodgkinson_Experiment_on_column.jpg 2x" data-file-width="478" data-file-height="303" /></a><figcaption>Hodgkinson experimented on the strength of columns, here showing the failure mode</figcaption></figure> <p>Hodgkinson measured the strength of columns of materials including cast iron and marble in a series of experiments.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Hodgkinson worked with Sir <a href="/wiki/William_Fairbairn" title="William Fairbairn">William Fairbairn</a> in <a href="/wiki/Manchester" title="Manchester">Manchester</a> on the design of <a href="/wiki/Iron" title="Iron">iron</a> <a href="/wiki/Beam_(structure)" title="Beam (structure)">beams</a>, especially on the Water Street bridge for the <a href="/wiki/Liverpool_and_Manchester_Railway" title="Liverpool and Manchester Railway">Liverpool and Manchester Railway</a> in 1828–30. His improved <a href="/wiki/Cross_section_(geometry)" title="Cross section (geometry)">cross section</a> was published by the <a href="/wiki/Manchester_Literary_and_Philosophical_Society" title="Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society">Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society</a> in 1830 and influenced much nineteenth century <a href="/wiki/Structural_engineering" title="Structural engineering">structural engineering</a>. He derived the empirical formula for a concentrated load, <i>W</i> (in <a href="/wiki/Ton" title="Ton">tons</a>), at which a beam will fail as a function of its length between simple supports, <i>L</i> (in inches); its depth, <i>d</i> (in inches); and its bottom-flange <a href="/wiki/Area" title="Area">area</a>, <i>A</i> (inch²): </p> <dl><dd><span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle W={\frac {26Ad}{L}}}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>W</mi> <mo>=</mo> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mfrac> <mrow> <mn>26</mn> <mi>A</mi> <mi>d</mi> </mrow> <mi>L</mi> </mfrac> </mrow> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle W={\frac {26Ad}{L}}}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/735908808668d3701cbbef85a3661e6e8437f722" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -1.838ex; width:11.654ex; height:5.343ex;" alt="{\displaystyle W={\frac {26Ad}{L}}}"></span></dd></dl> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:AmCyc_Bridge_-_Britannia_Bridge.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/AmCyc_Bridge_-_Britannia_Bridge.jpg/220px-AmCyc_Bridge_-_Britannia_Bridge.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/AmCyc_Bridge_-_Britannia_Bridge.jpg/330px-AmCyc_Bridge_-_Britannia_Bridge.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/AmCyc_Bridge_-_Britannia_Bridge.jpg/440px-AmCyc_Bridge_-_Britannia_Bridge.jpg 2x" data-file-width="703" data-file-height="467" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Britannia_Bridge" title="Britannia Bridge">Britannia Bridge</a>, showing the unused holes for the suspension chains that were never needed.</figcaption></figure> <p>His expertise with beams led to his retention, along with Fairbairn, as consultant on the novel <a href="/wiki/Tubular_bridge" title="Tubular bridge">tubular</a> design for the <a href="/wiki/Britannia_Bridge" title="Britannia Bridge">Britannia Bridge</a>. Fairbairn built and tested several prototypes, and developed the final form adopted for the bridge. Both Hodgkinson and <a href="/wiki/Robert_Stephenson" title="Robert Stephenson">Robert Stephenson</a> believed that extra chains would be needed to support the heavy spans, so the towers were built with spaces for the chains. Fairbairn, however, insisted that chains would not be necessary, and his opinion prevailed. He was right, and chains were never used, but the towers remain with their empty recesses. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Later_years">Later years</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eaton_Hodgkinson&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Later years"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Hodgkinson was elected a Fellow of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society" title="Royal Society">Royal Society</a> in 1841 and, in 1847, he became professor of the mechanical principles of engineering at <a href="/wiki/University_College_London" title="University College London">University College London</a>. In 1849, he was appointed by the <a href="/wiki/UK_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="UK Parliament">UK Parliament</a> to participate in a <a href="/wiki/Royal_Commission" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Commission">Royal Commission</a> to investigate the application of iron in <a href="/wiki/Railroad" class="mw-redirect" title="Railroad">railroad</a> structures, performing some early investigations of <a href="/wiki/Metal_fatigue" class="mw-redirect" title="Metal fatigue">metal fatigue</a>. </p><p>Towards the end of his life, his mental faculties failed and he died at <a href="/wiki/Higher_Broughton" class="mw-redirect" title="Higher Broughton">Higher Broughton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Salford,_Greater_Manchester" class="mw-redirect" title="Salford, Greater Manchester">Salford</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eaton_Hodgkinson&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Box_girder" title="Box girder">Box girder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cylinder_stress" title="Cylinder stress">Cylinder stress</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eaton_Hodgkinson&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Henry_Moseley_(mathematician)" title="Henry Moseley (mathematician)">Henry Moseley</a>. <i>Illustrations of Mechanics</i>. 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Page 403.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eaton_Hodgkinson&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Enquire into the Application of Iron to Railway Structures</i> (1849) cmd. 1123, HMSO</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Petroski" title="Henry Petroski">Petroski, H.</a> (1994) <i>Design Paradigms: Case Histories of Error and Judgement in Engineering</i> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-521-46108-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-521-46108-1">0-521-46108-1</a></li> <li>Rawson, R (1865) "Memoir of Eaton Hodgkinson", <i>Transactions of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society</i>, vol II, reprinted in <i>Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution</i> (1868), pp203–230</li> <li>Timoshenko, S. 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