• 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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    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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    Ramsbottom is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England. The population at the 2011 census was 17,872. Historically...
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    John Ramsbottom OBE FLS (15 October 1885 – 14 December 1974) was a British mycologist. Ramsbottom was born in Manchester. He graduated from Emmanuel College...
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  • an honorarium, and was replaced at Crewe by John Ramsbottom as Northern Division Superintendent. Ramsbottom began to standardise and modernise the locomotive...
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  • John Ramsbottom (1778–1845) was a British Whig politician and landowner, MP for New Windsor from 1810 until his death in 1845. In 1810, he succeeded his...
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  • Ramsbottom is a surname and may refer to: Alan Ramsbottom (1936–2023), British racing cyclist Alfred Ramsbottom (1831–1893), American soldier who fought...
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    19th centuries, but became more favourable to the Whig interest after John Ramsbottom (MP 1810–1845) was elected. By the 1860s the monarch had ceased to...
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  • Ramsbottom (1749–1813) was a British Tory politician, MP for New Windsor from 1806 until 1810, when he was succeeded by his nephew, John Ramsbottom....
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    as the namers of Amanita muscaria (L.) Lam.. The English mycologist John Ramsbottom reported that Amanita muscaria was used for getting rid of bugs in...
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  • Henry John Ramsbottom (21 October 1846 – 9 April 1905) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium-pace bowler who played...
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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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  • Manufacturer Year made Quantity made Quantity preserved Year(s) withdrawn Comments John Viret Gooch (1841–1851) Southampton 2-2-2 16–26 William Fairbairn & Sons...
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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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    after adopting the name from estates in Staffordshire and Derbyshire. Sir John Stanley solidified the family's influence by acquiring Knowsley Hall and...
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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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    DX Goods class was a class of 0-6-0 steam locomotive, designed by John Ramsbottom for freight duties. 943 were constructed, making them the largest single...
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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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  • Redouté's Roses (1817–24) with historical introduction and commentary by John Ramsbottom. The third volume began the alternative practice of colour plates from...
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    Kenworthy and Bullough of Blackburn (1834): the vibrating or fly reed John Ramsbottom and Richard Holt of Todmorden (1834): a new automatic weft stopping...
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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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    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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    Lieutenant-General Sir John Elley KCB KCH KMT OS (9 January 1764 – 23 January 1839) was a British soldier who joined the cavalry as a private and rose...
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    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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  • Engerth, German steam locomotive designer (d. 1884). September 11 – John Ramsbottom, superintendent of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway (d. 1897)...
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  • until 1930. Rea was the sole editor until 1919, when he was joined by John Ramsbottom; subsequently there were two or three editors until 1967 when the group...
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    hangings between 1954 and 28 November 1962, when James Smith was executed. John Robson Walby (alias Gwynne Owen Evans), one of the last two people to be...
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    the son of John Vivian (1750–1826), of Truro, Cornwall, and his wife Betsey, daughter of the Reverend Richard Cranch, and the brother of John Henry Vivian...
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    2-2-2 class was a type of express passenger locomotive designed by John Ramsbottom. The class is better known as the Problem class for the first locomotive...
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