User talk:Timglauert

Hermann Glauert image
Hi, re. your post at Talk:Hermann Glauert, thank you for letting us know its origin. I have now nominated it for deletion on the Wikimedia Commons, where it is permanently stored. More experienced maintainers will soon be assessing its credentials and making a decision.

Meanwhile, welcome to Wikipedia, and if you have other useful information, we would be really glad to hear from you again. &mdash; Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 10:55, 6 September 2022 (UTC)

Glauert family
I have just noticed that Hermann's father Louis settled in Sheffield and was a cutlery manufacturer. So was my father, and we lived there for around six years back in the 1950s and 60s. I am wondering from your account name whether you might be a member of the Glauert family? If so, I would love to find out more about his work. &mdash; Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 11:07, 6 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Indeed so, I am Hermann's youngest grandson. Louis & Carl Glauert were cutlery manufacturers and I have a number of items that they made (some passed down, others collected via eBay!). My aunt Audrey Glauert (an eminent lady who really should have her own page) knew most about that, but she died in 2014 and I have yet to go through her family papers with any degree of thoroughness. It was she who arranged to have Hermann's book re-printed in the 1980s after I told her that it was still is used at Cambridge and the few remaining library copies were in a poor condition. There is more family knowledge of Hermann himself and I hope (one day) to update and expand his page, not least to correct his date of death which was 4th August not 6th as currently recorded. Timglauert (talk) 22:50, 6 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the intriguing reply. It seems that L. & C. Glauert was established at about the same time as my ancestors on the Bingham side were taking over their established competitor Walker & Hall. But the Internet yields nothing of the cutlery they produced, other than ‘German forks’, described as having ‘flat shank and bib’. I am also intrigued to read somewhere that Hermann brought Prandtl's work to the UK, as he also took GTR Hill's to Germany. If you would like to carry on a conversation, Wikipedia allows us to message each other's email addresses. Otherwise, we are getting a bit off-topic here even for personal talk pages. You can also find my details at https://www.steelpillow.com/contact.html &mdash; Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 19:25, 7 September 2022 (UTC)
 * The Glauert's have rather a different take on Prandtl :) At the very least we believe that the two "rivals" developed similar ideas independently, but we tend to think that Prandtl is better known only because he survived. Timglauert (talk) 21:30, 7 September 2022 (UTC)