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    John Ramsbottom (11 September 1814 – 20 May 1897) was an English mechanical engineer. Born in Todmorden, then on the county border of Yorkshire and Lancashire...
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  • John Ramsbottom may refer to: John Ramsbottom (engineer) (1814–1897), English mechanical engineer who created many inventions for railways John Ramsbottom...
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  • James Kirkham Ramsbottom (1891–1925), English botanist John Ramsbottom (engineer) (1814–1897), English mechanical engineer John Ramsbottom (MP) (1778–1845)...
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  • section of railway in the Ottoman Empire, from İzmir to Seydiköy. John Ramsbottom (engineer) on the London and North Western Railway introduces the first...
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    1861 he was appointed Works Manager at Crewe and Chief Assistant to John Ramsbottom. Whilst Works Manager, Webb was responsible for the installation of...
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    school of Beaumont College, Berkshire before being apprenticed to engineers John Ramsbottom and Francis Webb of the London and North Western Railway in 1868...
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  • treadmill, pump) John Ramsbottom (1814–1897) – inventor of the tamper-proof spring safety valve and the displacement lubricator William John Macquorn Rankine...
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  • Engerth, German steam locomotive designer (d. 1884). September 11 – John Ramsbottom, superintendent of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway (d. 1897)...
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    Henry Ivatt (category English mechanical engineers)
    Educated at Liverpool College., at age 17, Ivatt was apprenticed to John Ramsbottom at the Crewe Works of the London and North Western Railway (LNWR)....
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    William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong (category English engineers)
    Armstrong, CB FRS (26 November 1810 – 27 December 1900) was an English engineer and industrialist who founded the Armstrong Whitworth manufacturing concern...
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    1860, the company pioneered the use of the water trough designed by John Ramsbottom. It was introduced on a section of level track at Mochdre, between...
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    steam engine. In 1856, John Ramsbottom invented a tamper-proof spring safety valve that became universal on railways. The Ramsbottom valve consisted of two...
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  • Conspiracy in Teheran (1946) Quentin Durward (1955) - Duke of Orléans Ramsbottom Rides Again (1956) - (uncredited) Intent to Kill (1958) - Hospital Receptionist...
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  • The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) is an independent professional association and learned society headquartered in London, United Kingdom...
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  • English agricultural engineer John Fowler first demonstrates his steam-driven agricultural ploughing system. English engineer John Ramsbottom invents a tamper-proof...
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    Carl Wilhelm Siemens (category 19th-century German engineers)
    anglicised to Charles William Siemens, was a German-British electrical engineer and businessman. Siemens was born in the village of Lenthe, today part...
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    from his monologues such as Sam Small, invented by Holloway, and Albert Ramsbottom, created for him by Marriott Edgar, were absorbed into popular British...
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    modern design of a metallic split-ring was invented by John Ramsbottom in the 1850s. Ramsbottom's initial design in 1852 was a circular shape, however these...
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    displacement lubricator was introduced in the United Kingdom in 1860 by John Ramsbottom. It operates by allowing steam to enter a closed vessel containing...
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    the pressure at a set level. Early examples were spring-loaded, but John Ramsbottom invented a tamper-proof valve which was universally adopted. The other...
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    (Walmersley Road) links Walmersley with Bury to the south and Shuttleworth, Ramsbottom and Edenfield to the north. Before this 'new' road was built the road...
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    Francis Trevithick (category Engineers from Cornwall)
    combined. The Locomotive Superintendent on the North Eastern Division was John Ramsbottom, who took over at Crewe and Trevithick was obliged to resign. On 2...
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    Museum. John Ramsbottom was hired from semi-retirement by the L&YR to advise on a new site for locomotive construction and repairs. Ramsbottom identified...
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    intermediate stations at Bury Bolton Street, Burrs Country Park, Summerseat and Ramsbottom, with the line crossing the border into Rossendale serving Irwell Vale...
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    Charles Beyer (category British railway mechanical engineers)
    friend of George Stephenson, Robert Stephenson, Sir Daniel Gooch, John Ramsbottom and others, he left the company. This move may have resulted after...
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    motor. 1861: The first steam powered overhead crane is installed by John Ramsbottom at the Crewe Railway workshops. Power was transmitted to the crane...
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    turner at the same works. Encouraged by the locomotive superintendent, John Ramsbottom, Taylor applied himself to Latin, Greek, and the natural sciences,...
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    They were designed by John Ramsbottom who had fifty built, all without cabs and with pierced driving wheel splashers. Ramsbottom's successor F. W. Webb...
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  • Spin a Dark Web) (1956) as Sam It's Never Too Late (1956) (uncredited) Ramsbottom Rides Again (1956) (uncredited) Jacqueline (1956) as Foreman The Long...
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    Actor. Stephen John Coogan was born on 14 October 1965 in Middleton, Lancashire, the son of housewife Kathleen (née Coonan) and IBM engineer Anthony "Tony"...
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