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William Murdoch (sometimes spelled Murdock) (21 August 1754 – 15 November 1839) was a Scottish chemist, inventor, and mechanical engineer. Murdoch was employed by the firm of Boulton & Watt and worked for them in Cornwall , as a steam engine erector for ten years, spending most of the rest of his life in Birmingham , England.
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Matthew Boulton 1728-1809 James Watt 1736-1819 William Murdoch 1754-1839 inappropriately dressed for tinkering with steam engines. "This memorial unveiled by Sir Percy H Mills Bt. K.B.E. September 14 1956 commemorates the immense conribution made by Boulton, Watt and Murdoch to the industry of Birmingham and of the world.
Jonathan Hornblower, inventor of the compound engine and the steam valve [8] William Husband, civil and mechanical engineer [9] Thomas Brown Jordan, engineer [10] Michael Loam, inventor of the man engine [11] Sir Thomas Matthews, civil engineer and builder of lighthouses; William Murdoch, engineer, inventor and sometime Cornish resident [12]
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Doorbell mechanism from 1884 in Andrássy Avenue, Budapest Antique mechanically operated shop doorbell on a torsion spring. William Murdoch, a Scottish inventor, installed a number of his own innovations in his house, built in Birmingham in 1817; one of these was a loud doorbell, that worked using a piped system of compressed air. [1]