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William Murdoch (sometimes spelled Murdock) (21 August 1754 – 15 November 1839) was a Scottish chemist, inventor, and mechanical engineer. Murdoch was employed by the firm of Boulton & Watt and worked for them in Cornwall, as a steam engine erector for ten years, spending most of the rest of his life in Birmingham, England.
A simple oscillating cylinder engine, part of a Mamod SE2 working steam model. An oscillating cylinder steam engine (also known as a wobbler in the US) [citation needed] is a simple steam-engine design (proposed by William Murdoch at the end of 18th century) that requires no valve gear.
Boulton & Watt was an early British engineering and manufacturing firm in the business of designing and making marine and stationary steam engines.Founded in the English West Midlands around Birmingham in 1775 as a partnership between the English manufacturer Matthew Boulton and the Scottish engineer James Watt, the firm had a major role in the Industrial Revolution and grew to be a major ...
Boulton, Watt and Murdoch is a gilded bronze statue depicting Matthew Boulton, James Watt, and William Murdoch by William Bloye, assisted by Raymond Forbes Kings. It stands on a plinth of Portland stone in Centenary Square, Birmingham and marks the contribution these individuals made to the development of the steam engine and hence the start of ...
The Whitbread Engine of 1785. The sun and planet gear is a method of converting reciprocating motion to rotary motion and was used in the first rotative beam engines.. It was invented by the Scottish engineer William Murdoch, an employee of Boulton and Watt, but was patented by James Watt in October 1781.
Murdoch's model steam carriage of 1784, now in Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum. Early research on the steam engine before 1700 was closely linked to the quest for self-propelled vehicles and ships [citation needed], the first practical applications from 1712 were stationary plant working at very low pressure which entailed engines of very large dimensions.
Portrait of William Murdoch by John Graham-Gilbert. William Murdoch (sometimes spelled Murdock) (21 August 1754 – 15 November 1839) was a Scottish chemist, inventor, and mechanical engineer. Murdoch was employed by the firm of Boulton & Watt and worked for them in Cornwall, as a steam engine erector for ten years, spending most of the rest of ...
As a child he would watch steam engines pump water from the deep tin and copper mines in Cornwall. For a time he was a neighbour of William Murdoch, the steam carriage pioneer, and would have been influenced by Murdoch’s experiments with steam-powered road locomotion. [8] Trevithick first went to work at the age of 19 at the East Stray Park Mine.