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  2. William Murdoch - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. List of Cornish engineers and inventors - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Richard Trevithick - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  5. Bello Mill - Wikipedia

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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.

  6. Portal:Scotland/Selected biographies/29 - Wikipedia

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  7. Sun and planet gear - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Portal:Scotland/Selected biographies - Wikipedia

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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. Murdoch was the ...

  9. Doorbell - Wikipedia

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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]