Eminent engineers; brief biographies of thirty-two of the inventors and engineers who did most to further mechanical progress (1906)
Goddard, Dwight, 1861-1939 · New York, The Derry-Collard company · leaf 200
d, andthe ultimate triumph of the locomotive. Instead, during those years he gave all his thoughtto inventing a steam wagon to run over the highways,and to the perfecting of his steam jet propulsion ofsteamboats. While thus busied he died in 1833, whensixty-two years of age. As he died with no… … Henry Maudsley 198 Henry Maudsley. T T T Henry Maudsley was the originator of modernmachine tools. He came of an old English family whohad their seat near Ormskirk, but who became scatteredduring the eighteenth century. William Maudsley,father of Henry, was a joiner working in the neighbor-hood of…
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