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History of famous British engineers

History of famous British engineers

Britains history is composed of engineers well-known throughout their history. It made me decide mention only some of the most famous with links to websites with more details on the various engineers.

Thomas Savery (1650-1715)
Thomas Savery was an English military engineer and inventor who in 1698 patented the first crude Steam Engine.

Jacques Watt (1736-1819)

Was the son of a merchant, was born in Greenock, Scotland, in 1736. At age of nineteen Watt was sent to Glasgow to learn the trade of a mathematical instrument maker.

After one year London, Watt returned to Glasgow in 1757 where he established his own company violin. Watt quickly gained a reputation as a quality engineer and was used on the Forth & Clyde Canal and the Caledonian Canal. He also participated in the improvement of harbors and the deepening Forth and Clyde and other rivers in Scotland.

Thomas Telford (1757-1834) (famous bridge builder)

Was the son of a shepherd, was born in Westerkirk, Scotland in 1757. At age 14 he was apprenticed to a stonemason. He worked some time in Edinburgh and in 1792 he moved to London where he is involved in building additions to Somerset House. Two years later, he found work at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.

George Stephenson (1781 – 1848)

Was an engineer Briton who designed a famous and important historical Locomotive steam named Rocket, and is known as the Father of British Steam Railways.

George Stephenson was born in Wylam, England, 9.3 miles (15 km) west of Newcastle upon Tyne. In 1748, a wagonway – an arrangement similar to a path iron, but with pieces of wood and designed to support horse carriages – had been built from the Wylam Colliery to the River Tyne running for several miles (several kilometers). The younger Stephenson grew up near her, and in 1802 obtained a job as an engine-man at a coal mine. For the next ten years his knowledge of Steam Engines increased, until in 1812 he stopped operating them to win their lives, and began to build them.

Charles Babbage (1791-1871) (inventor of the first computer)

Charles Babbage was born in Teignmouth, Devon, in 1791. After studying at Trinity College in Cambridge, he spent most of his life trying to build calculating machines. The first of these was designed to compute tables of logarithms and similar functions performed by repeated addition by sprockets. A small prototype of the engine difference was produced in 1822 and this resulted in receiving a grant from the Government to build a machine large.

Robert Stephenson (1803-1859)

In 1827 he began working on the Rocketlocomotive. Robert capacity as an engineer has been illustrated by the success of the rocket at Rainhill in October 1829.

Kingdom Isaambard Brunel (1806-1859)

Was born in Portsmouth April 9, 1806. He was educated at Hove, near Brighton. In 1823, Brunel has gone work with his father on the construction of the tunnel under the Thames. He was later appointed resident engineer on site.

In 1829 Brunel designed a suspension bridge across the River Avon at Clifton. Its original design was rejected on the advice of Thomas Telford, but an improved version was accepted but the project had to be abandoned due to lack of funds.

Sir William Arrol (1839-1913)

Sir William Arrol was born in 1839 and became famous for his construction of the Forth Rail Bridge between North and South Queensferry, Scotland. The bridge with its three towers door overhang which are each 104m (340 feet) high was the design of Sir John Fowler (1817-1898) and Sir Benjamin Baker (1840-1907) and was constructed by Arrol at a cost of £ 2 million and a half. Its construction began in 1883 and took seven years to complete, the Prince of Wales at the time (which will become more later King Edward VII) has completed the construction of the house driving a rivet or registered March 4, 1890.

Thomas Andrews (1873-1912)

Born in Comber (pronounced cum-ber), County Down, Thomas Andrews was the son of a politician and a mother whose father Belfast Harland and Wolff had. In 1884, at the age of 11 entered the Andrews University Belfast Institute and left in 1889 to become an apprentice Harland & Wolff, where his parents had paid the sum of £ 100 for his learning.

RJMitchell (1893-1937) (inventor of the Spitfire)

Perhaps Mitchell's greatest legacy was the Spitfire fighter plane single-seater, designed between 1934 and 1936. It was a hybrid of many and various technical developments. Using the experience of flight at high speed gained by the success of the Schneider Trophy, influences of the manufacturer German Junkers, and learning essential lessons unsuccessful Supermarine Type 224, the Spitfire is a masterpiece of engineering design practice that Mitchell would never fly in combat.

Sir Frank Whittle (1907-1996) (inventor of the Jet engine)

Whittle jet Gloster E28 took its first flight May 15, 1941 and went to a speed of 350 mph. It was followed by the Gloster Meteor which was used for intercept the German V1 flying bomb. Power Jets Company was supported by the British government in 1944.

Sir Christopher Cockerell (1910-1999) (inventor of the hovercraft)

In 1953 Cockerell began working on his invention, the hovercroft. After successful experiences on Oulton Broad, Cockerell approached the Government's National Research Development Council (NRDC) who have invested £ 1,000 in his invention. However, it took him three years before full commercial support for its project.

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In Below is a list of more British genius.

• James Abernethy – Canal Scottish marine engineer and bridge

• John Aird – English engineer of the late 19th century

• David Anderson – Scottish civil engineer and lawyer

William George Armstrong – British engineer and president 22 of the Institution of Civil Engineers

• Sir William Arrol – Scottish engineer involved with the construction of the Tay Rail Bridge, Forth Rail Bridge and Tower Bridge

• Sir Ove Arup – Founder Arup

• John Aspinall – British railway engineer

Benjamin Baker – British engineer end 19th century

James Arthur Banks – British engineer Dam

• Robert Barker – Engineer of English railways, which also played in the first international football match.

• Peter W. Barlow – English engineer in the late 19th century. Notable Lambeth Bridge (old) and the shield tunneling

• William Henry Barlow – English engineer in the late 19th century, engineering Rail

• Sir John Wolfe-Barry – English engineer in the late 19th century, designed Tower Bridge

• John Frederick La Trobe Bateman – British hydraulic engineer

• Sir Joseph Bazalgette – English engineer in the late 19th century

• Mr. George Berkley – British railway engineer

• George Parker Bidder – British engineer, railways, telegraphs and hydraulics

• Sir Alexander Binnie – Engineer English in the late 19th century tunnels and bridges of the Thames

• William Binnie – British water engineer, son of

• John Blenkinsop – English engineer in the mid 19th century, railways, Locomotives and mining

• Benzoin Blyth – Scottish railway engineer

• Benjamin Blyth II – Scottish railway engineer, on the one hand Scottish engineer practice to become president of the Institution of Civil Engineers

• Sir Thomas Bouch – Engineer English in the late 19th century, first Tay Rail Bridge Disaster

• William Bragge – English engineer in the 19th century

• Frederick Bramwell – British engineer

• Jacques century Brindley – Engineer English mid 18th – the canals and water mills

• John Alexander Brodie – City Engineer of Liverpool and the inventor the soccer goal net

• George Barclay Bruce – Engineer English railways

• Henri Marc Brunel – English engineer in the late 19th century.

• Isambard Kingdom Brunel – English engineer in the mid 19th century – Great Western Railway designed a series of famous steamships, and major bridges.

• James Brunlees – Scottish engineer known for the design of Southend Pier

• Peter Bruff – English engineer in the 19th century. Notable work in Clacton on Sea

• Sir George Buchanan – British engineer associated with port facilities in Burma, Iraq and Bombay, during the 20th century.

• William Tierney Clark – English engineer in the mid 19th century, suspension bridges

• Reginald Coates – British engineer and academic

• John Coode – English engineer, known for work on the Port of Portland

• Henry Cronin – British engineer

• William Cubitt – English engineer in the 19th century.

• Jonathan Davidson – British Civil Engineer

• Sydney Donkin – British civil engineer in mechanical and electrical

• Francis Drake

• Thomas Dadford Junior – channels

• Robert Elliott-Cooper – British engineer

• William Henry Ellis – British engineer and manufacturer of steel

• Joshua Field – telegraph cables, sewers

• Maurice Fitzmaurice – Ireland Bridge, the dam and tunnel engineering

• Ken Fleming – Northern Irish engineer and piling and foundation specialist

• Sanford Fleming area – railroads, time

• Sir John Fowler – bridges

• Mr. Charles Fox – British railway engineer

• Charles Douglas Fox – British railway engineer

• Thomas Frank Pierson – British engineer

• Ralph Freeman – English Bridge and Highway Engineer

• Buckminster Fuller

• Angus Fulton – British engineer

• William George Nicholson Geddes – Scottish engineer

• Alexander Gibb – Scottish rail and military engineer

• Alfred Giles – British engineer

• William Glanville – British engineer highways

• Charles Hutton Gregory – railways

• William Grierson – British railway engineer

• John Griffith – Irish engineer

• Sir William Halcrow – Tunnels

• Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover – Big Ben

• Archibald Milne Hamilton Road – Bridge Callender-Hamilton and Hamilton in Kurdistan

• Dr Edmund Hambly – British structural engineer

• Sir William Gordon Harris – British banks and roads engineer

• Thomas Elliott Harrison – British railway and bridge engineer

• Arthur Hartley – British oil engineer

• Sir John Hawkshaw – British railway engineer and port

• John Clarke Hawkshaw – British engineer, son of

• Thomas Hawksley – English engineer noted for his work on water supply

• Charles Hawksley – son of the previous Engineer, Water

• Harrison Hayter – British rail and port engineer

• Brodie Henderson – British railway engineer

• Hugh Henshall – British canal engineer and student of James Brindley

• Roger Hetherington – British engineer

• Roger Gaskell Hetherington – Ministry British civil engineer of Health

• Clement Hindley – British railway engineer

• George Humphreys – British engineer

• James Charles Inglis, a British engineer

• Holmes Jellett – docks and ports

• John B. Jervis – canals and railroads

• William Jessop – channels

• Albert Mussey Johnson – helped design Scotty's Castle.

• Theodore Judah – railways

• Edward J. – Bridges

• Alexander Kennedy – British maritime and electrical engineer and academic

• Kirby Laing – former president of John Laing PLC

• Anthony George Lyster – British engineer docks

• John Macadam – roads

• Sir John MacNeill – railways

• William Mahone – Plank Road, Railway

• Robert Manning – flow Open channel

• James Mansergh – English railway, water supply and wastewater engineering

• William Marriott – Railway engineer English

• William Matthews – British port engineer

• William Maw – British railway engineer

• Sir Henry Maybury – British rail and road engineer

• John Robinson McClean supply – British engineer, railways, water

• Conde McCullough – bridges

• Scott McMorrow – Playwright, poet, and engineer

• John Miller (engineer), 19th century, railway engineer Edinburgh base (Grainger & Miller)

• Guilford Lindsey Molesworth – Engineer English railways

• General Sir John Monash GCMG, KCB, VD – bridges and precast concrete (also commander of the Australian Corps of the First World War)

• Langbridge Charles Morgan – British civil engineer

• James Morgan – Regent's Canal

• Mott Basile – Mines, tunnels, bridges

• Sir Alan Muir Wood – British engineer tunnel

• Benjamin Outram – channels

• William N. Page – railways, mining

• Frederick Palmer – yards Maritime

• William Barclay Parsons

• Paton Thomas – British engineer dam

• Allan Quartermaine – British engineer

• Robert Rawlinson – English canal engineer and sanitary

• Richard Redmayne – British mining engineer and civil society

• Vernon Robertson – British engineer

• Alexander Ross (engineer) – Scottish railway engineer

• Leopold Halliday Savile – British engineer tank

• Robert Stephenson – railways

• Robert Stevenson – Headlight

• John Edward Thornycroft – shipbuilder UK and President of the Institution of Civil Engineers

• Ernest Crosbie Trench – British railway engineer

• William Unwin – British engineer and materials

• Charles Blacker Vignoles – Engineer of British Railways

• James Walker

• William Kelly Wallace – Engineer Northern Ireland Railways

• Andre Waterkeyn designed the Atomium

• John Duncan Watson – British engineer wastewater

• David Mowat Watson – British engineer

• Francis Wentworth-Shields – British engineer

• William Henry White – British engineer and chief constructor of the Admiralty

• Willcocks – British irrigation engineer served in India and Egypt

• Edward Leader Williams – canals, bridges

• George Wilson Ambler – British port engineer

• Normand D. Wilson – Mass Transit

• John Wolfe-Barry

• A. Baldwin Wood – Pumps

• Edward Woods – British railway engineer

• William Barton Worthington – British railway engineer

• Robert Wynne-Edwards – British engineer pipeline tunnel

• Andrew Yarranton – English engineer Navigation

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