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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 ...
Dr. Roberts is a practicing psychiatrist who assists William Murdoch on a number of cases, first introduced in Season 2, played by Paul Amos. Dr. Roberts, who was recently removed from his position at the Provincial Lunatic Asylum because his research on the workings of the criminal mind ruffled too many feathers.
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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] Andrew Pears, inventor of transparent soap [citation needed]
Murdoch Mysteries is a Canadian television drama series that premiered on Citytv on January 20, 2008, and currently airs on CBC. The series is based on characters from the Detective Murdoch novels by Maureen Jennings and stars Yannick Bisson as William Murdoch, a police detective working in Toronto, Ontario in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. [2]
Colin Murdoch (1929–2008), New Zealand – Tranquillizer gun, disposable hypodermic syringe; William Murdoch (1754–1839), Scotland – Gas lighting; Jozef Murgas (1864–1929), Slovakia – inventor of the wireless telegraph (forerunner of the radio) Evgeny Murzin (1914–1970), Russia – ANS synthesizer
Neil Arnott (1788–1874), physician and inventor of the Arnott waterbed; Sir William Arrol (1839–1913), bridge builder; Alexander Bain (1810–1877), inventor and engineer, first to invent and patent the electric clock and fax machine; Charles Baird (1766–1843), engineer who played an important part in the industrial and business life of ...
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.