Lieutenant Peter Lecount RN FRAS CE (25 May 1794 - 1852) was a naval officer and a civil engineer with a strong interest in railways.
Peter Lecount | |
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Born | 25 May 1794 ![]() |
Died | 1852 ![]() |
Occupation | Naval officer ![]() |
Awards | |
Rank | lieutenant (1827–) ![]() |
Branch | Royal Navy (1809–) ![]() |
He joined the navy in 1809 and saw active service until going on half-pay in 1827.[1]
He was made a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society while a midshipman. Between 1820 and 1823 he wrote papers and related letters to the Board of Longitude on clocks and chronometers, celestial navigation, particularly using Jupiter's satellites, and a marine chair for observing them.[2]
He was the author of "The History of the Railway connecting London and Birmingham";[3] "A Practical Treatise on Railways, explaining their construction and management", originally published as Railways in the seventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica; "An Examination of Professor Barlow's reports on iron rails, etc." 1836.
References
edit- ^ O'Byrne, William Richard (1849). John Murray – via Wikisource. . .
- ^ Lecount, Peter. "Papers of the Board of Longitude". Retrieved 23 March 2015.
- ^ Lecount, Peter. "The History of the Railway connecting London and Birmingham". Retrieved 23 March 2015.