References for John Scott Russell

Books:

1. G S Emmerson, John Scott Russell: a Great Victorian Engineer and Naval Architect (London, 1977).
2. J Russell, The Modern System of Naval Architecture (London, 1865).
3. J Russell, The Wave of Translation in the Oceans of Water, Air and Ether (London, 1885).

Articles:

4. R K Bullough, The Wave 'par excellence', the solitary, progressive great wave of equilibrium of the fluid - an early history of the solitary wave. In M Lakshmanan, Solitons, Springer Series in Nonlinear Dynamics, (New York, 1988) 150-281.
5. R K Bullough and P J Caudrey, Solitons and the Korteweg-de Vries Equation: Integrable Systems in 1834-1995. Acta Applicandae Mathematicae 39 (1995), 193-228.
6. J Russell and J Robison, Report on Waves, Rep. Brit. Assoc. for the Advancement of Science (1837), 417-496.
7. J Russell, Report on Waves, Rep. Brit. Assoc. for the Advancement of Science (1844), 311-390.

June 2001