Burstall, Henry Frederick William

Title

Prof.

First name(s)

Henry Frederick William

Surname

Burstall

Position(s) held at King's College London

• Demonstrator in Mechanical Engineering, 1891-1895
• Evening Class Lecturer of Mechanical Engineering, 1891-1893
• Evening Class Lecturer of Mechanical Laboratory, 1894-[1896]

Education & professional details

School, college and/or university attended

• Privately Educated ^{Ref: *2}
• University College, London ^{Ref: *2}
• St. John’s College, Cambridge ^{Ref: *1}

Qualifications

• BA (16th Wrangler) (1889)
• MA (1893) ^{Ref: *1}

Position(s) held (non King's College London)

• Apprenticed to Messrs. J. Stewart and Sons, of Blackwall (1882-1885) ^{Ref: *2}
• Chair of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at Mason's College, Birmingham (1896-) ^{Ref: *2}
• Professor of Engineering at Mason College, Birmingham ^Ref:*1
• Vice-Principal of the University of Birmingham (1925-1930) ^{Ref: *2}
• Emeritus Professor and Life Governor, University of Birmingham ^{Ref: *2}

Professional activities

• Civil Engineer
• Gas Engine Research Committee of the Institution
• War-time Researcher for Admiralty and Air Board ^{Ref: *2}
• Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers

Publications

• "Indicating Gas Engines," (1909)
• "The Energy-Diagram for Gas," (1911)
• "A New Form of Optical Indicator," (1923) (T. Bernard Hall prize in 1924)

Personal details

Date of birth

Sept. 3, 1865

Place of birth

Old Machar, Aberdeenshire

Date of death

15 July 1934

Place of death

Alvechurch

Obituary

The Engineer, 20 July 1934

Family details

Son of Henry Abraham (1822-1890), retired builder, of Camden Town, London ^{Ref: *1} and Annie Hephzibah King (1833-1910). ^{Ref: *2} Married to Lilian Maud Burstall in 1897. ^{Ref: *2}