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William Murdoch was born in Bello Mill near Old Cumnock in Ayrshire, Scotland, the third of seven children and the first son to survive beyond infancy.A son of John Murdoch, a former Hanoverian artillery gunner and a Millwright and tenant of Bello Mill on the estate of James Boswell in Auchinleck, he was educated until the age of ten at the Old Cumnock Kirk School before attending Auchinleck ...
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For a time he was a neighbour of William Murdoch, the steam carriage pioneer, and would have been influenced by Murdoch’s experiments with steam-powered road locomotion. [8] Trevithick first went to work at the age of 19 at the East Stray Park Mine. He was enthusiastic and quickly gained the status of a consultant, unusual for such a young ...
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The neighboring Bello Mill Cottage is famous for being the birthplace of William Murdoch, who was born in 1754. Murdoch invented gas lighting and did experiments on steam engines in the nearby Murdoch's Cave. Murdoch's father John Murdoch was tenant and millwright at Bello Mill, which he had taken over in 1754.
William Murdoch, the acknowledged inventor of gas lighting, was born on 21 August 1754, the third of seven children. His father was John Murdoch, a millwright and tenant of Sir James Boswell at Bellow Mill in Auchinleck parish. William is said to have carried out early experiments into the use of steam and the manufacturing and use of natural gas.
William Murdoch (1754–1839) engineer and inventor; Alexander Murray (1775–1813) minister and philologist; John Murray (1778–1843) publisher; Carolina Nairne Lady Nairne, née Oliphant (1766–1845) writer and song collector; William Napier (c.1741–1812) musician and music publisher; William Nicholson (1782–1849) poet
The Whitbread Engine of 1785. The sun and planet gear is a method of converting reciprocating motion to rotary motion and was used in the first rotative beam engines.. It was invented by the Scottish engineer William Murdoch, an employee of Boulton and Watt, but was patented by James Watt in October 1781.