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Sir Joseph Whitworth, 1st Baronet (21 December 1803 – 22 January 1887) was an English engineer, entrepreneur, inventor and philanthropist. [2] In 1841, he devised the British Standard Whitworth system, which created an accepted standard for screw threads . [ 3 ]
English: Photograph of a plaque on the memorial to Joseph Whitworth in the park in Darley Dale, Derbyshire, UK. Date: 3 August 2008: Source: Own work: Author: JMiall:
Christie was a friend of the industrialist Sir Joseph Whitworth.By Whitworth's will, Christie was appointed one of three legatees, each of whom was left more than half a million pounds for their own use, ‘they being each of them aware of the objects’ to which these funds would have been put by Whitworth.
He remained in prison until his death three years later at the age of 75, having served 36 years. [16] [17] Trevor Joseph Hardy: 1976 2012 Trevor Joseph Hardy murdered three teenage girls between December 1974 and March 1976. Janet Lesley Stewart, 15, was murdered on New Year's Eve 1974 and buried in a shallow grave in Newton Heath, North ...
Roberts also manufactured and sold sets of stocks and dies to his range of pitches, so other engineers could cut threads on nuts and bolts and other machine parts. Roberts' inventions had a seminal influence on other machine-tool engineers, including Joseph Whitworth, when he came to Manchester, a decade later. His efforts have been largely ...
William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, CB FRS (26 November 1810 – 27 December 1900) was an English engineer and industrialist who founded the Armstrong Whitworth manufacturing concern on Tyneside. He was also an eminent scientist, inventor and philanthropist.
In 1882, having built a new house in Darley Dale, Whitworth leased The Firs to his friend C.P. Scott, editor of the Manchester Guardian. [1] After Scott's death the house became the property of the University of Manchester, and was the vice-chancellor's residence until 1991.
Joseph Paxton, architect and gardener for the nearby Chatsworth House; Crichton Porteous, author; Joseph Whitworth, engineer – see the Whitworth legacy section above; Sir Godfrey de Foljambe, politician and judge, was the local landowner in the 1360s and 1370s. Timothy Yates, theologian, was the vicar of St Helen's in the years 1979–1990