Hyde Clarke

Hyde Clarke (14 December, 1815 – 1 March, 1895) was an English engineer, philologist and author. He edited the "Railway Register" from 1845 to 1847 and founded the London and County Bank. He was a member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

Principal works

* "Physical economy a preliminary inqury into the physical laws governing the periods of famines and panics." 1847
* "Life of Richard Trevithick, C.E.; Life of George Stephenson, C.E." 1848
*"Contributions to railway statistics in 1846, 1847, & 1848" 1849
*"A grammar of the English tongue, spoken and written; for self-teaching and for schools." 1859
*"Memoir of the comparative grammar of Egyptian, Coptic & Ude" 1873
*"Researches in prehistoric and protohistoric comparative philology, mythology, and archæology, in connection with the origin of culture in America and the Accad or Sumerian families." 1875
*"The Khita and Khita-Peruvian epoch: Khita, Hamath, Hittite, Canaanite, Etruscan, Peruvian, Mexican, etc." 1877
*"Himalayan Origin and Connection of the Magyar and Ugrian." 1877
*"A short handbook of the comparative philology of the English, Anglo-Saxon, Frisian, Flemish or Dutch, Low or Platt Dutch, High Dutch or German, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, Latin, Italian, French, Spanish, and Portuguese toungues." 1879
*"The early history of the Mediterranean populations, &c., in their migrations and settlements : illustrated from Autonomous Coins, Gems, Inscriptions, &C." 1882

References

*Clarke,Hyde. "The Century Cyclopedia of Names: A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of Names in Geography, Biography, Mythology, History, Ethnology, Art, Archæology, Fiction, Etc." New York: Century Co, 1904.
* [http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=hyde+clarke&fq=ap%3AHyde+Clarke&qt=facet_ap%3A worldcat.org] Accessed April 2, 2007

External links

*For a note about Hyde Clarke "Sunspots and Expectations" of the "Economics of W.S. Jevons" by Sandra Peart [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0415067138&id=UrnXQx1IoJoC&pg=PA242&lpg=PA242&ots=K7Xh73NHbU&dq=%22hyde+clarke+%22+black+(1992)&sig=ep3rLZ82DWO8ZDQwKrq_vWeW8x0 Google books.com]