David Kirkaldy

David Kirkaldy
Born(1820-04-04)4 April 1820
Dundee, Scotland
Died25 January 1897(1897-01-25) (aged 76)
London
Resting placeHighgate Cemetery
EducationEdinburgh University
SpouseIsabella McPherson

David Kirkaldy (1820–1897) was a Scottish engineer who pioneered the testing of materials as a service to engineers during the Victorian period. He established a test house in Southwark, London and built a large hydraulic tensile test machine, or tensometer for examining the mechanical properties of components, such as their tensile strength and tensile modulus or stiffness.

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