James Henry Greathead (6 August 1844 – 21 October 1896) was an English mechanical and civil engineer renowned for his work on the London Underground railways...
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Henry Francis Greathead (1757–1818) was a pioneering rescue lifeboat builder from South Shields. Although Lionel Lukin had patented a lifeboat in 1785...
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cricketer for the MCC (first name unknown) Henry Greathead (1757–1818), British boat builder James Henry Greathead (1844–1896), British engineer This page...
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Tunnelling shield (redirect from Greathead shield)
Brunel's original design was substantially improved upon by James Henry Greathead who was granted three patents for different shield designs. Additionally...
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The statue of James Henry Greathead, designed by James Butler, is installed outside the Royal Exchange, where it conceals a ventilation shaft. It was...
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cast iron circular shield independently invented and built by James Henry Greathead, similar to an idea that had been not received a patent in 1864, nor...
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lifts required to reach the DLR. In January 1994, a statue of James Henry Greathead was erected outside the station, next to the Royal Exchange. It was...
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Rex Mason (redirect from Henry Greathead Rex Mason)
Henry Greathead Rex Mason CMG QC (3 June 1885 – 2 April 1975) was a New Zealand politician. He served as Attorney General, Minister of Justice, Minister...
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Irish writer Henry Mason, alternative spelling used for state legislator and newspaperman Henry Mayson of Mississippi Rex Mason (Henry Greathead Rex Mason...
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first tunnelling shields in the same year as famed engineer James Henry Greathead. His patent agency eventually brought him fame and fortune, and his...
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the City & South London Railway under Sir Benjamin Baker and James Henry Greathead. Early projects included the reconstruction and extension of the City...
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boat costing £130, named Atholl, and was one of 31 lifeboats built by Henry Greathead. There are no records of any service by the boat. The boat was kept...
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died in World War I and World War II. There is also a statue of James Henry Greathead, responsible for an improved tunnelling shield which enabled construction...
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River Mersey. Brunel's tunnelling shield was later refined, with James Henry Greathead playing a particularly important role in developing the technology...
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by more than 20 years. The original was built by lifeboat pioneer Henry Greathead, in the same year that he was recognised by parliament for the lifeboat...
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tunnel 2 Aug 1870 Water pipe, optical fiber Peter W. Barlow and James Henry Greathead. The world's first underground tube railway. A rail tunnel for 3 months...
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such as microscopes and telescopes. A statue of the engineer James Henry Greathead was erected in 1994 in the road beside the Royal Exchange, which lies...
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drawing, in 1914, "the map that saved the London Underground". James Henry Greathead (1844–1896) was the engineer that dug the Tower Subway using a method...
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the automatic machine gun, Sir Henry Bessemer, engineer and inventor of the famous steel process, James Henry Greathead who tunnelled much of the London...
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children of William John Edwin Greathead and Jane Greathead (née Wyatt), but the family soon moved to Timaru. Aston Greathead attended Waimataitai Primary...
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Davy Geordie lamp – George Stephenson Tunnel boring machine – James Henry Greathead and Isambard Kingdom Brunel Concertina – Charles Wheatstone Theatre...
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(born 1944), Germany/Switzerland – Dye-sensitized solar cell James Henry Greathead (1844–1896), South Africa – tunnel boring machine, tunnelling shield...
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deep-level tube railway. It was built under the supervision of James Henry Greathead, who had been responsible (with Peter W. Barlow) for the Tower Subway...
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Zetland is the world's oldest surviving lifeboat. It was built by Henry Greathead of South Shields and is housed in a volunteer-led sea-front museum...
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archbishop John James Fenwick, founder of Fenwick's department stores Henry Greathead, inventor of the lifeboat Anthony Hammond, legal writer Thomas Harrison...
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Godlonton - politician, author, owner of Grahamstown Journal James Henry Greathead – Engineer renowned for his work on the London Underground railway...
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needed for a lifeboat. A 30-foot 10-oared lifeboat was constructed by Henry Greathead of South Shields, at a cost of £160, arriving in Whitby on 15 September...
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City and South London Railway (C&SLR) was started in 1886 by James Henry Greathead using a development of Barlow's shield. Two 10-foot-2-inch (3.10 m)...
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Hippolyte Fizeau (born 1819), French physicist. October 21 – James Henry Greathead (born 1844), British civil engineer. October 27 – H. Newell Martin...
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promoter of the bill, and engineer of the proposed railway, was James Henry Greathead, who had, in 1869–70, constructed the Tower Subway using the same tunnelling...
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