Sir Alexander Blackie William Kennedy LLD FRS FRGS (17 March 1847 – 1 November 1928) better known simply as Alexander Kennedy was a leading British civil and electrical engineer and academic. A member of many institutions and the recipient of three honorary doctorates Kennedy was also an avid mountaineer and a keen amateur photographer being one of the first to document the archeological site of Petra in Jordan following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.
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birth date
1847-03-17
death date
1928-11-01
discipline
Civil engineering, Electrical engineering
education
City of London School, Royal School of Mines
institution
Royal Society, Physical Society of London, Institution of Electrical Engineers, British Science Association, Institution of Civil Engineers, Institution of Mechanical Engineers
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