John Blenkinsop (1783 – 22 January 1831) was an English mining engineer and an inventor of steam locomotives, who designed the first practical railway...
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Blenkinsop or Blenkinsopp is a surname of British origin. Notable people with the surname include: Alan Blenkinsop (born 1933), South African cricketer...
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Rack railway (section Blenkinsop (1812))
This used a rack and pinion system designed and patented in 1811 by John Blenkinsop. The first mountain cog railway was the Mount Washington Cog Railway...
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Major-General Sir Layton John Blenkinsop KCB DSO JP FRGS (27 June 1862 – 28 April 1942) was a British Army officer and veterinary surgeon. Blenkinsop was the third...
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ancient Blenkinsop family of nearby Blenkinsop and Bellister castles. A history of the region published in 1840 specifies that John Blenkinsop owned Dryburnhaugh...
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"mechanical traveller", or Steam Horse. However, in 1812, Matthew Murray and John Blenkinsop had produced the first twin cylinder steam locomotive, Salamanca, for...
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first to use two cylinders and has a rack railway mechanism devised by John Blenkinsop and built by Matthew Murray. March 20 – Charles Vincent Walker, English...
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wagonway was built to link the coal pits to Leeds. The colliery agent, John Blenkinsop designed an iron railway and its first steam-powered locomotive which...
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bypass waterfalls, and were pulled by horses or by people. In 1811 John Blenkinsop designed the first successful and practical railway locomotive, and...
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transport timelines George Bradshaw, originator of the railway timetable John Blenkinsop (1783–1831), inventor Matthias W. Baldwin (1795–1866), manufacturer...
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Bessemer (1813–1898) – best known as the creator of the Bessemer Process John Blenkinsop (1783–1831) – steam locomotive pioneer, developed rack and pinion railway...
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wattmeter, alternating current (AC) and turbogenerator John Blenkinsop (1783–1831), UK – Blenkinsop rack railway system Charles K. Bliss (1897–1985),...
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year. Salamanca was also the first rack and pinion locomotive, using John Blenkinsop's patented design for rack propulsion. A single rack ran outside the...
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the first commercial railway to use steam locomotives successfully. John Blenkinsop, the colliery's viewer, or manager, had decided that an engine light...
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first to use two cylinders and has a rack railway mechanism devised by John Blenkinsop and built by Matthew Murray. August 19 – War of 1812: USS Constitution...
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analysing earth dams Magnus Bjorndal American engineer and inventor John Blenkinsop English engineer in mid-19th century; railways, locomotives and mining...
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similar to the Salamanca, designed by the British locomotive pioneer John Blenkinsop. Built in June 1816 by Johann Friedrich Krigar in the Royal Berlin...
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Dodds, locomotive engineer George Stephenson, rack railway inventor John Blenkinsop, and Nicholas Wood who was to succeed him as Chief Viewer at Killingworth...
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bought it in 1839 from the widow of a whaling captain, John William Dundas Blenkinsop. Blenkinsop had been married to Te Rongo.: ? Wakefield wrote to the...
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tower retains medieval fabric believed to be from the 15th century. John Blenkinsop (1783–1831), a pioneer in the use of steam locomotives on the nearby...
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commercially successful steam locomotive was Salamanca, built in 1812 by John Blenkinsop and Matthew Murray for the 4 ft (1,219 mm) gauge Middleton Railway...
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List of revocations of appointments to orders and awarded decorations and medals of the United Kingdom (section Order of St John)
Member (fifth class) prior to 1984 1921: Lieutenant-Colonel Basil John Blenkinsop Coulson (appointed 1920) 1923: Richard Williamson (appointed 1918)...
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to successfully use steam locomotives: the Salamanca, which used John Blenkinsop's patented design for rack propulsion. 1760s – Iron production in Britain...
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Salamanca, built in 1812 by John Blenkinsop and Matthew Murray for the 4 ft 1 in (1,245 mm) gauge Middleton Railway. Blenkinsop believed that a locomotive...
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working locomotives in England (by Richard Trevithick in 1804 and John Blenkinsop in 1812) and the opening of the first public railway, the Stockton...
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Heworth, Coxlodge, Kenton and Middleton. At Middleton he employed John Blenkinsop who in 1812 converted the wagonway from Brandling's collieries into...
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by Slaughter, Grüning and Company, this locomotive was named after John Blenkinsop, a mining engineer and pioneer of railway locomotives. Bury (1865 -...
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from a 19th-century aquatint by R. D. Havell. In the background, John Blenkinsop's locomotive can be seen. Author E. P. Thompson Language English Subject...
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John the Evangelist, Rothwell (1135676)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 21 July 2021 Historic England, "Gravestone of John Blenkinsop...
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