Sir Herbert Nigel Gresley (19 June 1876 – 5 April 1941) was a British railway engineer. He was one of Britain's most famous steam locomotive engineers, who rose to become Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER). He was the designer of some of the...
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He was a prototypical British gentleman scientist and inventor of the Victorian era. Amongst many accomplishments, he developed the oxy-hydrogen blowpipe, and later applied its principles to a novel form of illumination, the Bude light; developed a series of early steam-powered road vehicles; ...
LONDON, July 23 (Xinhua) -- The iconic Rocket steam locomotive, hailed as one of the national treasures of Britain's transport age, is to go on long term display in the North of England, it was announced Monday. The Rocket, designed by Robert Stephenson at the dawn of the railway age,...
printsanddrawings.TheScienceMuseumishometotheworld'smostcomprehensivecollectionsofscience,technology,industryandmedicine.Wecanlearnaboutspaceflightorfindoutaboutsteamlocomotivesandtheworld'sfirstaeroplanes.Therearenumerousextraordinaryobjectsondisplay:CharlesBabbage'scalculatingmachine,Stephenson'sRocketandtheApollo10command...
A flashlight is a simple device — an electric lightbulb connected to a switch. The first U.S. patent for the flashlight was obtained by a British inventor named David Misell in 1899. Some of the early flashlights were donated to the New York City police. Because early models were ineffic...
It was out of Army Navy Surplus; you get a big round chunk of wood or a big overdrive gar from a saw mill in British Columbia, where they're cutting logs to make lumber. You go with what you got, right?"By 1976, however, the going was getting tougher with hauling around the ...
It was out of Army Navy Surplus; you get a big round chunk of wood or a big overdrive gar from a saw mill in British Columbia, where they're cutting logs to make lumber. You go with what you got, right?"By 1976, however, the going was getting tougher with hauling around the ...
He was a prototypical British gentleman scientist and inventor of the Victorian era. Amongst many accomplishments, he developed the oxy-hydrogen blowpipe, and later applied its principles to a novel form of illumination, the Bude light; developed a series of early steam-powered road vehicles; ...
Ericsson collaborated on the design of the steam locomotive Novelty, which competed in the Rainhill Trials on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, which were won by George Stephenson's Rocket. In America he designed the US Navy's first screw-propelled steam-frigate USS Princeton, in par...