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Sir William Fairbairn, 1st Baronet of Ardwick Bt FRS (19 February 1789 – 18 August 1874) was a Scottish civil engineer, structural engineer and shipbuilder. In 1854 he succeeded George Stephenson and Robert Stephenson to become the third president of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers .
In 1835, it was purchased by the Metcalfe family, who added east and west wings, followed by a warehouse and offices in 1844, and a further warehouse in 1852. In 1851, a larger watermill was installed, designed by William Fairbairn & Sons and fed by a 10 million gallon reservoir.
William Fairbairn was an innovative engineer and his company was involved in many developments across the whole field of engineering. When the Albert Hall was built as a memorial to Prince Albert the company was involved in the design. Although the hall itself was built of brick and terracotta the dome (designed by Rowland Mason Ordish) on top ...
Hunslet Mill was constructed by William Fairbairn for John Wilkinson and completed circa 1842. [1] By 1847 some 1,500 female staff were employed in the mill reeling flax . [ 1 ] It was occupied by a firm of linen manufacturers called Richard Buckton and Son [ 2 ] from 1868 [ 3 ] and then by a firm of blanket weavers called Dodgson and ...
In 1835 Scottish engineers William Fairbairn and David Napier bought the Land of Promise estate from Charles Augustus Ferguson, the start of making Millwall an important centre of iron shipbuilding. [1] In 1836, Fairbairn laid out an ironworks on a three-acre site to develop small ships, although his main works remained in Manchester.
Sir William Fairbairn, 1st Baronet (19 February 1789 – 18 August 1874) was a Scottish structural engineer. Born in Kelso to a local farmer , Fairbairn showed an early mechanical aptitude and served as an apprentice millwright in Newcastle upon Tyne where he befriended the young George Stephenson .
HMS Megaera was originally constructed as an iron screw frigate for the Royal Navy, and was one of the last and largest ships built by William Fairbairn's Millwall shipyard. Launched on 22 May 1849, HMS Megaera was one of the first iron ships ordered by the Royal Navy.
British engineer and architect William Fairbairn is sometimes credited with the first designs for what he termed the shed principle possibly as early as 1827. In his "Treatise on Mills and Millwork", of 1863, Fairbairn stated that, "Contemporaneous with the architectural improvements in mills [from 1827], the shed principle lighted from the roof, or the "saw-tooth" system, came into operation.