Editing Fleeming Jenkin (section)

===Future partners===
"Early in 1859 he met [[William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin|William Thomson]] (later Sir William Thomson, and still later Lord Kelvin), his future friend and partner. [[Lewis Gordon (civil engineer)|Lewis Gordon]], of Newall & Co., subsequently the first professor of engineering in a British University, was in [[Glasgow]] seeing Thomson's instruments for testing and signalling on the first Atlantic cable during the six weeks of its working. Gordon said he should like to show them to ''a young man of remarkable ability,'' engaged at their Birkenhead works. Jenkin was telegraphed for, arrived next morning, and spent a week in Glasgow, mostly in Thomson's classroom and laboratory at the old college. Thomson was struck with Jenkin's brightness, ability, thoroughness and determination to learn.  ''I soon found,' he remarked, 'that thoroughness of honesty was as strongly engrained in the scientific as in the moral side of his character.'' Their talk was chiefly on the electric telegraph but Jenkin was eager, too, on the subject of [[physics]]. After staying a week he returned to the factory but he began experiments and corresponded briskly with Thomson about cable work. Thomson seems to have infected his visitor during their brief contact with the magnetic force of his personality and enthusiasm."<ref name=munro/>{{rp|¶ 34}}

On 26 February, during a four days' leave, Jenkin married Miss Austin at [[Northiam]] in [[Sussex]], returning to his work the following Tuesday. He was strongly attached to his wife and his letters reveal a warmth of affection which a casual observer would never have suspected in him. In 1869 he wrote, ''People may write novels, and other people may write poems, but not a man or woman among them can say how happy a man can be who is desperately in love with his wife after ten years of marriage.''  Five weeks before his death he wrote to her, ''Your first letter from [[Bournemouth]] gives me heavenly pleasure – for which I thank Heaven and you, too, who are my heaven on earth.''<ref name=munro/>{{rp|¶ 35}}