Benjamin Robins
At a glance:
- Series: Magill’s Guide to Military History
- Categories: Science, Military History, Technology, Inventions
- Subcategories: Inventors, Engineering, Engineers
- Curriculum: British History, 18th Century European History
Article abstract: Military significance: Robins’s research into the behavior of gunpowder and high-velocity projectiles made him a founding father of modern ballistics.
Benjamin Robins began his career as a mathematician. In 1727, at the age of twenty, he received membership in the Royal Society. Over the course of the 1730’s, he became interested in civil and military engineering as well as ballistics. He also became active in Tory politics, and his criticism of Robert Walpole’s government cost him an appointment at the military academy in Woolwich, in...
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