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Now published! For anyone with an interest in solitary waves, steam carriages, canals, the British Association for the Advancement of Science, the contest for the Chair of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh in 1838, or late-Georgian shenanigans generally:
Making waves: the context and afterlife of John Scott Russellâs canal experiments of 1834â1835
We reconstruct the events surrounding John Scott Russellâs first observation of a solitary wave, which would become a foundational myth of both nonlinear wave theory and Scottish engineering scienc...
