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Anthony George Maldon Michell was born in London on the 21st June 1870 while his parents were on a visit to England from Australia to which they had emigrated 17 years earlier. The family returned to Maldon, Victoria in 1872 where young Anthony attended one of the state primary schools newly established in that area. He later returned to England and attended the Perse Grammar School whilst his elder brother, John Henry, attended Trinity College, Cambridge . On leaving school, A.G.M. Michell matriculated and spent one year as a non collegiate undergraduate at Cambridge. In 1889, he returned to Australia and took an engineering course at Melbourne, graduating in 1895. For the next two years he obtained practical experience in hydraulic and structural engineering being awarded a Master of Science degree in 1897. The next few years were spent in Hydraulic Engineering and it was not until the early 1900s that he turned his attention to the theory of lubrication. The Michell principle previously known as film lubrication was originally observed and investigated by Beauchamp Tower and Osborne Reynolds . Several years elapsed before their theories were put into practice by A.G.M. Michell, who first showed how it was possible to apply film lubrication to flat thrust surfaces and journal bearings, the result being the now widely known and universally adopted Michell bearing. Arising from Michell's research work on the mechanical properties of liquids and the mathematical studies of fluid motion viscosity and lubrication a patent was taken out in England and Australia on January 16th, 1905. In a few short years his invention completely revolutionised thrust technology, particularly in the field of marine propulsion. The company of Michell Bearings Limited {Link without Title} was established in Newcastle Upon Tyne , United Kingdom , in 1920. Principal shareholders at that time were Vickers, Fairfield Rowan, John Brown Engineering and Cammel Laird. In 1934, Michell became a member of the Royal Society in the first year of his nomination. In 1938, he received the Kernot Memorial Medal from the University of Melbourne, which was awarded for distinguished engineering achievement in Australia. He was the recipient of the James Watt International medal in 1942 on the nomination of the Institution of Engineers (Australia), the Engineering Institute of Canada, and the South African Institution of Engineers. In 1950, at the age of eighty, Michell published his fine book on lubrication. Of distinctive style, the book is wide-ranging yet concise, original and thorough, and provides a good starting point for students of the subject. Anthony George Malden Michell was a bachelor and lived in Prospect Hill Rd Camberwell, until his death on 17 February 1959 at the age of eighty-eight. |
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