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    Thomas Russell Crampton, MICE, MIMechE (6 August 1816 – 19 April 1888) was an English engineer born at Broadstairs, Kent, and trained on Brunel's Great...
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  • journalist Thomas Russell Crampton (1816–1888), English engineer Thomas Crampton (politician) (died 1854), American politician from Maryland William Crampton, British...
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    A Crampton locomotive is a type of steam locomotive designed by Thomas Russell Crampton and built by various firms from 1846. The main British builders...
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  • Chatham and Dover Railway had some Crampton locomotives built by Robert Stephenson and Company. The SER also had some Cramptons built by Tulk and Ley. SECR B1...
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    Joy, the long boiler design was taken to its extreme by Thomas Russell Crampton with his Crampton locomotive, which utilised a much larger driving wheel...
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  • 1911). August 4 – Russell Sage, American financier, director of Union Pacific Railroad (d. 1906). August 6 – Thomas Russell Crampton, English engineer...
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    command of Captain Hayward. In 1974 a Welsh coracle piloted by Bernard Thomas of Llechryd crossed the English Channel to France in 131⁄2 hours. The journey...
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    and his life in Broadstairs. Crampton Tower by the railway station houses a museum containing Thomas Russell Crampton's working drawings, models, graphics...
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  • by Tubize of Belgium. April 19 – Thomas Russell Crampton, English steam locomotive designer who produced the Crampton locomotive type as well as a tunnel...
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  • (1911–1954) – founder of Cosentini Associates Thomas Russell Crampton (1816–1888) – inventor of the Crampton locomotive and an early advocate of the Channel...
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  • submarine telegraph cable (Dover-Calais) in 1851 with engineer Thomas Russell Crampton Francis Wollaston (scientist) (1694–1774) Francis Wollaston (astronomer)...
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  • Matthew Arnold, poet and cultural critic (born 1822) 19 April – Thomas Russell Crampton, engineer (born 1816) 8 June – Sir Duncan Cameron, general (born...
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    at a substantial discount." The engineer for the new line was Thomas Russell Crampton who was one of the directors of the new company. The building of...
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  • American archaeologist, newspaper editor (b. 1821) April 19 – Thomas Russell Crampton, English engineer (b. 1816) May 6 – Abraham Joseph Ash, American...
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  • locomotives of the 4-4-0ST wheel arrangement. They were designed by Thomas Russell Crampton for the East Kent Railway (EKR) to specifications prepared by Joseph...
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    of twenty-four steam 4-4-0 locomotives. They were designed by Thomas Russell Crampton for the London, Chatham and Dover Railway (LCDR) as general purpose...
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    worked for the GWR, before moving to other companies, including Thomas Russell Crampton (SER among others), Harold Holcroft (SECR, SR), James Holden (GER)...
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    submarine telegraph cable started here to Sangatte, France – with Thomas Russell Crampton as the responsible engineer. During the Second World War, most...
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  • especially the railways, and in conversations he refers to Edward Bury, Thomas Russell Crampton and Daniel Gooch as engineers and locomotive designers he especially...
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  • Broadstairs, where he was recuperating from a duodenal ulcer in 1915. Thomas Russell Crampton (1816–1888), an engineer, is remembered as a designer of locomotives...
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    1848 Cail obtained licence to copy the patents of Thomas Russell Crampton and began manufacturing Crampton locomotives as well. He was one of the first railway...
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    Morton Peto, Edward Betts, and Thomas Russell Crampton, the engineer for the LCDR. This new partnership, Peto, Betts and Crampton, in conjunction with the original...
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  • initially of the 4-2-0 wheel arrangement. They were designed by Thomas Russell Crampton for the London, Chatham and Dover Railway (LCDR) as "1st class...
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  • Southern Railway, designed the most powerful Pacifics in Britain Thomas Russell Crampton, Crampton locomotive Robert Francis Fairlie, Fairlie locomotive Sir...
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    (1814–1868) George Burt (1816–1894) James Combe (c. 1806–1867) Thomas Russell Crampton (1816–1888) Thomas Barnabas Daft (1816–1878) James Dredge (1840–1906) John...
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    Bern George Harrington, and Louisa Anne (d. 1940), daughter of Thomas Russell Crampton. His sons were the diplomat Horace, who succeeded as 9th baronet...
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  • largest investor was railway engineer Thomas Russell Crampton, who was put in charge of ordering the new cable. Crampton specified a much improved cable. The...
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  • Company), Robert Sinclair (of the Eastern Counties Railway) and Thomas Russell Crampton, they decided upon forty new locomotives: eight 1st class fast...
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  • railway civil engineering contractor Thomas Russell Crampton (1816–1888) – engineer and designer of the Crampton locomotive Charles Kettle (1821–1862)...
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  • Rumbold and his second wife, Louisa Anne (d. 1940), daughter of Thomas Russell Crampton. His elder half-brother was another diplomat, also called Horace...
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