James Robert Napier FRS
1821 - 1879
In 1857, Napier left his father's business to start his own shipbuilding initiatives with mixed success. Napier went on to collaborate with his friend, William John Macquorn Rankine, along with naval architect Isaac Watts and Frederick K Barnes, to write 'Shipbuilding, Theoretical and Practical', published in 1866. The intention was to provide a more technical theoretical approach to the shipbuilding process.
Napier spent much of the latter period of his life as a respected member of Glaswegian society.
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