Sir Joseph Whitworth. 'The world's best mechanician'
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- Author(s) Atkinson, Norman
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1996
- Pages 338pp; illus
- Publisher Sutton Publishing
- Place Published Stroud
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Written by a former MP and parliamentarian with a specialisation in technical education. Includes Whitworth family tree. Sections include: 'The making of a Baconian engineer'; 'How he set up shop'; 'Early machine tool genius'; 'The inventor'; 'The history of measurement'; 'Sparkling progress'; 'A tour de force'; 'The Great Exhibition 1851 and workshop conflicts'; 'The Whitworth gun is born'; 'Infidelity, education and Whitworth's legacy'. An appendix provides a list of his patents. Touches on William Fairbairn; Henry Maudsley; James Nasmyth; William Armstrong