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MR. CHARLES HENRY WORDINGHAM, who died on January 28 at the age of fifty-eight years, was well known as an electrical engineer. He was born at Twickenham in 1866, and was educated at King's College School and at King's College, London. He served his apprenticeship under Dr. John Hopkinson. He then joined the United Telephone Company, where his work consisted mainly in assisting with the erection of telephone exchanges. From 1889 to 1892 he was an engineer at the Grosvenor Gallery Generating Station of the London Electric Supply Corporation, where he was associated with Dr. Ferranti and Mr. Partridge in carrying out many of the pioneering experiments which led the way to such important developments. During this period also he was head of the meter testing department and devised methods of testing switches and fuses which were very useful in practical work. In 1892 he again became an assistant to Dr. Hopkinson and supervised the erection of the electric lighting stations at Manchester and Whitehaven. In 1894 he became chief engineer to the electricity works of the Manchester Corporation, and for the next seven years devoted himself whole-heartedly to developing the station.
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R., A. Mr. C. H. Wordingham. Nature 115, 200–201 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115200a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/115200a0