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is a treatise on the use of powdered fuels to produce power. It was well-reviewed by Dunn's peers, with the author congratulated on his success in bringing under one cover the many sources of information on the subject. The book was published in the United States in the same year, by the Van
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Introductory Course for students in schools and technical colleges preparatory to the more formal study of mechanics, physics and chemistry". The book was a success, being regarded as an intermediate course in Physics and Chemistry for London
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Chemists, Analysts, Assayers and Samplers" J and H S Pattinson as a partner with John Pattinson. The firm had been founded in the year of Dunn's birth – 1858 – and set up offices and a laboratory at 75 The Side in
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Newcastle and was a member of the ancient House Carpenters' Company. (His paternal grandfather had been a Newcastle house carpenter and joiner.) Dunn held office as Senior Steward of the
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institute had grown very rapidly and was still growing, the number of students by then being two thousand. "There is no doubt", Dunn assured his audience, "that
England is in no way behind any other country in the world as regards technical education".
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Tyneside Chemistry". His junior partner Charles Bloxam wrote in the journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry that:
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Newcastle and vastly extended their operations. (The firm is still in operation elsewhere in Newcastle as Pattinson Scientific Services Limited.)
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to which he was elected as a member in 1905. A year later he was elected a Member of the society's
Council and was to serve on the Council for three periods. In 1917–18 he was Vice-President and in 1930 was elected President.
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for teaching elementary Science. It went to a second edition nine years later, in 1908, and was still being actively marketed by Methuen in October 1909. (Dunn's co-author, Victor Mundella, later became Principal of
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Josiah Thomas, who had been tried for the manslaughter of one of his patients in 1867, but was cleared of all charges. They had one child, Laura.
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