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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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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]
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.
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 ...
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
Rupert Murdoch and his children are in an epic closed-door court battle for the future of his empire. ... NPR's David Folkenflik, left, is an expert on the Murdoch family. He wrote the book ...
Except The Dying is the first detective novel by Canadian writer Maureen Jennings featuring the detective William Murdoch in the series The Murdoch Mysteries. It was first published in Canada by Thomas Dunne Books , an imprint of St. Martin's Press , in 1997.