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    Henry Robinson Palmer (1795–1844) was a British civil engineer who designed the world's second monorail and the first elevated railway. He is also credited...
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  • Henry Palmer may refer to: Henry Palmer (Leicester MP) represented Leicester (UK Parliament constituency) Henry Palmer (by 1496-1559), Member of Parliament...
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  • of the United Kingdom. November – Henry Robinson Palmer patents a monorail system in England. May 8 – William Henry Vanderbilt, son of Cornelius Vanderbilt...
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    developed a horse drawn monorail system, which had been invented by Henry Robinson Palmer in 1821. Lartigue had seen camels in Algeria carrying heavy loads...
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    Deutschlandticket. The Wuppertaler Schwebebahn had a forerunner: in 1824, Henry Robinson Palmer of Britain presented a railway system which differed from all previous...
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    the 1840s, and it is still helping developing countries today. Henry Robinson Palmer, architect and engineer to the London Dock Company, was granted...
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    streets, waterways, or existing railway track. The British engineer Henry Robinson Palmer (1795–1844) filed a patent application for a horse-drawn suspended...
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  • Demian patents a version of the accordion in Vienna. June 30 – Henry Robinson Palmer files a British patent application for corrugated iron for use in...
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    close to his family home. He then worked at the London Docks for Henry Robinson Palmer. Barlow married Selina Crawford Caffin in May 1842 at Charlton,...
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    was first used for roofing in London in 1829 by civil engineer Henry Robinson Palmer, and the patent was later sold to Richard Walker who advertised...
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  • 1829: William Mann invents the compound air compressor. 1829: Henry Robinson Palmer is awarded a patent for corrugated galvanised iron. 1830: Edwin...
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  • transit theodolite; he then became a pupil of the civil engineer, Henry Robinson Palmer whom was a founder member of the Institution of Civil Engineers...
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    Conflat Container terminal design process Double-stack rail transport Henry Robinson Palmer described an early principle of containerization. Inter-box connector...
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    found the Institution was taken in 1818 by eight young engineers, Henry Robinson Palmer (23), William Maudslay (23), Thomas Maudslay (26), James Jones (28)...
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  • model steam engine. In 1842 Hurwood succeeded Henry Robinson Palmer running Ipswich Dock, when Palmer relinquished the post following he completion of...
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    five years. The designer and chief engineer for the wet dock was Henry Robinson Palmer, assisted by James Jones, one of the founder members of the Institution...
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    invented corrugated iron, but this is myth as it was invented by Henry Robinson Palmer in 1829. He built and lived in the Iron House, North Street, which...
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  • manufacture batches of identical components. At the same time (1829), Henry Robinson Palmer patented corrugated iron, using his invention to construct a shed...
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  • traced to UK patent No 4618 dated 22 November 1821. The inventor was Henry Robinson Palmer, who described it as 'a single line of rail, supported at such height...
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    Cheshunt Railway was opened on 26 June 1825. Based on a design by Henry Robinson Palmer, this line ran for 0.75 mi (1.21 km) from the town's high street...
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  • Caleb Ashworth, is in the same magazine, 1813. Henry Robinson Palmer Lee, Sidney, ed. (1895). "Palmer, Samuel (1741-1813)" . Dictionary of National Biography...
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  • Police Act establishes the Metropolitan Police Service. 30 June – Henry Robinson Palmer files a patent application for corrugated iron for use in buildings...
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    test track, as a monorail following a design of the Englishman Henry Robinson Palmer. (29 December 2009). Friedrich Harkort - Vorbild und Vordenker Archived...
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    vice-president of the Institution of Civil Engineers, which was founded by Henry Robinson Palmer, one of his pupils. He also helped the institution to obtain its...
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    Historic Lettering: Wet Dock Davy drawing". www.ipswich-lettering.co.uk. Henry Davy. Archived from the original on 17 May 2020. Twinch (2009), page 94...
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  • Families", by Richard Anson Wheeler "Stonington By The Sea", by Henry Robinson Palmer "An Environmental History Review of Oyster, Flounder, Bay Scallop...
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  • and became friends with Henry Robinson Palmer, who was often employed by Thomas Telford to make surveys. Ashwell assisted Palmer on surveys in East Anglia...
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  • construction is considered to be the first known monorail in the world. Henry Robinson Palmer List of Russian inventors Izmerov, Oleg. "The Unknown Russian Monorail"...
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    make use of the London and Croydon Railway from London Bridge Henry Robinson Palmer's via Woldingham, Oxted and Lindfield (with a proposed link to Dover)...
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    test track, as a monorail following a design of the Englishman Henry Robinson Palmer. This was a precursor to the Wuppertal Schwebebahn finally built...
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