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William Murdoch, the Glossary

William Murdoch (sometimes spelled Murdock) (21 August 1754 – 15 November 1839) was a Scottish chemist, inventor, and mechanical engineer.^[1]

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Affidavit

An italic (Medieval Latin for "he has declared under oath") is a written statement voluntarily made by an affiant or deponent under an oath or affirmation which is administered by a person who is authorized to do so by law.

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Air conditioning

Air conditioning, often abbreviated as A/C (US) or air con (UK), is the process of removing heat from an enclosed space to achieve a more comfortable interior temperature (sometimes referred to as 'comfort cooling') and in some cases also strictly controlling the humidity of internal air.

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Ammonia

Ammonia is an inorganic chemical compound of nitrogen and hydrogen with the formula.

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Ammonium chloride

Ammonium chloride is an inorganic chemical compound with the chemical formula, also written as.

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Andrew Vivian

Andrew Vivian (1759–1842) was a British mechanical engineer, inventor, and mine captain of the Dolcoath mine in Cornwall, England. William Murdoch and Andrew Vivian are engineers from Cornwall.

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Anglicisation

Anglicisation is a form of cultural assimilation whereby something non-English becomes assimilated into, influenced by or dominated by the culture of England.

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Aniline

Aniline (and -ine indicating a derived substance) is an organic compound with the formula.

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Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald

Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald FRSE (1 January 1748 – 1 July 1831) was a Scottish nobleman and inventor. William Murdoch and Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald are Scottish inventors.

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Arithmetic

Arithmetic is an elementary branch of mathematics that studies numerical operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

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Artillery

Artillery are ranged weapons that launch munitions far beyond the range and power of infantry firearms.

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Aspirin

Aspirin, also known as acetylsalicylic acid (ASA), is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) used to reduce pain, fever, and/or inflammation, and as an antithrombotic.

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Auchinleck

Auchinleck (Affleck; Achadh nan Leac) is a village southeast of Mauchline, and northwest of Cumnock in East Ayrshire, Scotland.

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Ayrshire

Ayrshire (Siorrachd Inbhir Àir) is a historic county and registration county, in south-west Scotland, located on the shores of the Firth of Clyde.

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Bakelite

Bakelite, formally, is a thermosetting phenol formaldehyde resin, formed from a condensation reaction of phenol with formaldehyde.

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Bello Mill

Bello Mill (also spelt Bellow Mill) was a mill dating from the 18th century on the river called the Lugar Water, on the estate of James Boswell, Lord Auchinleck in Ayrshire, in Scotland.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England.

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Boulton and Watt

Boulton & Watt was an early British engineering and manufacturing firm in the business of designing and making marine and stationary steam engines.

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Boulton, Watt and Murdoch

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.

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Charles Frédéric Gerhardt

Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (21 August 1816 – 19 August 1856) was a French chemist, born in Alsace and active in Paris, Montpellier, and his native Strasbourg.

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Chemistry

Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter.

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Coal gas

Coal gas is a flammable gaseous fuel made from coal and supplied to the user via a piped distribution system.

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Coal tar

Coal tar is a thick dark liquid which is a by-product of the production of coke and coal gas from coal.

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Cod

Cod (cod) is the common name for the demersal fish genus Gadus, belonging to the family Gadidae.

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Coke (fuel)

Coke is a grey, hard, and porous coal-based fuel with a high carbon content.

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Cornwall

Cornwall (Kernow;; or) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Cumnock

Cumnock (Scottish Gaelic: Cumnag) is a town and former civil parish located in East Ayrshire, Scotland.

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Devil

A devil is the personification of evil as it is conceived in various cultures and religious traditions.

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Doorbell

A doorbell is a signaling device typically placed near a door to a building's entrance.

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Drive shaft

A drive shaft, driveshaft, driving shaft, tailshaft (Australian English), propeller shaft (prop shaft), or Cardan shaft (after Girolamo Cardano) is a component for transmitting mechanical power, torque, and rotation, usually used to connect other components of a drivetrain that cannot be connected directly because of distance or the need to allow for relative movement between them.

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Dye

A dye is a colored substance that chemically bonds to the substrate to which it is being applied.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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English Channel

The English Channel, also known as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Southern England from northern France.

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Exeter

Exeter is a cathedral city and the county town of Devon, South West England.

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Francis Leggatt Chantrey

Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey (7 April 1781 – 25 November 1841) was an English sculptor.

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Frederick Albert Winsor

Frederick Albert Winsor, originally Friedrich Albrecht Winzer (1763 in Braunschweig, Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel – 11 May 1830 in Paris) was a German inventor, one of the pioneers of gas lighting in the UK and France.

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Gas holder

A gas holder or gasholder, also known as a gasometer, is a large container in which natural gas or town gas (coal gas or formerly also water gas) is stored near atmospheric pressure at ambient temperatures.

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Gas lighting

Gas lighting is the production of artificial light from combustion of a fuel gas such as methane, propane, butane, acetylene, ethylene, hydrogen, carbon monoxide, coal gas (town gas) or natural gas.

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Gasworks

A gasworks or gas house is an industrial plant for the production of flammable gas.

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Gear

A gear or gearwheel is a rotating machine part typically used to transmit rotational motion and/or torque by means of a series of teeth that engage with compatible teeth of another gear or other part.

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George Augustus Lee

George Augustus Lee (1761 – 5 August 1826) was a British industrialist. William Murdoch and George Augustus Lee are People of the Industrial Revolution.

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Gravesend

Gravesend is a town in northwest Kent, England, situated 21 miles (35 km) east-southeast of Charing Cross (central London) on the south bank of the River Thames and opposite Tilbury in Essex.

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Handsworth, West Midlands

Handsworth is an inner-city area of Birmingham in the West Midlands, England.

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Harrods

Harrods is a British luxury department store located on Brompton Road in Knightsbridge, London, England.

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History of steam road vehicles

The history of steam road vehicles comprises the development of vehicles powered by a steam engine for use on land and independent of rails, whether for conventional road use, such as the steam car and steam waggon, or for agricultural or heavy haulage work, such as the traction engine.

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HM Customs and Excise

HM Customs and Excise (properly known as Her Majesty's Customs and Excise at the time of its dissolution) was a department of the British Government formed in 1909 by the merger of HM Customs and HM Excise; its primary responsibility was the collection of customs duties, excise duties, and other indirect taxes.

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House of Hanover

The House of Hanover (Haus Hannover) is a European, formerly royal house with roots tracing back to the 17th century.

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Hudson River

The Hudson River is a river that flows from north to south primarily through eastern New York, United States.

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Humphry Davy

Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet, (17 December 177829 May 1829) was a British chemist and inventor who invented the Davy lamp and a very early form of arc lamp. William Murdoch and Humphry Davy are People of the Industrial Revolution.

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Industrial espionage

Industrial espionage, also known as economic espionage, corporate spying, or corporate espionage, is a form of espionage conducted for commercial purposes instead of purely national security.

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Isinglass

Isinglass is a form of collagen obtained from the dried swim bladders of fish.

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James Boswell

James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (29 October 1740 (N.S.) – 19 May 1795), was a Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer, born in Edinburgh. William Murdoch and James Boswell are People from Auchinleck.

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James Watt

James Watt (30 January 1736 (19 January 1736 OS) – 25 August 1819) was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1776, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world. William Murdoch and James Watt are People of the Industrial Revolution, Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame inductees, Scottish chemists, Scottish inventors and Scottish mechanical engineers.

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James Watt junior

James Watt junior, FRS (5 February 1769 – 2 June 1848) was a British engineer, businessman and activist.

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Jean-Pierre Minckelers

Jean-Pierre or Jan Pieter Minckelers (also Minkelers, Minckeleers) (1748-1824) was a Dutch academic and inventor of coal gasification and illuminating gas.

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Jet (gemstone)

Jet is a type of lignite, the lowest rank of coal, and is a gemstone.

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Joshua Field (engineer)

Joshua Field FRS (1786 – 11 August 1863) was a British civil engineer and mechanical engineer.

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Kirk

Kirk is a Scottish and former Northern English word meaning 'church'.

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Koblenz

Koblenz is a German city on the banks of the Rhine (Middle Rhine) and the Moselle, a multinational tributary.

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Lantern

A lantern is an often portable source of lighting, typically featuring a protective enclosure for the light sourcehistorically usually a candle, a wick in oil, or a thermoluminescent mesh, and often a battery-powered light in modern timesto make it easier to carry and hang up, and make it more reliable outdoors or in drafty interiors.

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Lathe

A lathe is a machine tool that rotates a workpiece about an axis of rotation to perform various operations such as cutting, sanding, knurling, drilling, deformation, facing, threading and turning, with tools that are applied to the workpiece to create an object with symmetry about that axis.

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Leamington Spa

Royal Leamington Spa, commonly known as Leamington Spa or simply LeamingtonEven more colloquially, also referred to as Lem or Leam.

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Lime (material)

Lime is an inorganic material composed primarily of calcium oxides and hydroxides.

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Lobbying

Lobbying is a form of advocacy, which lawfully attempts to directly influence legislators or government officials, such as regulatory agencies or judiciary.

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Locomotive

A locomotive or engine is a rail transport vehicle that provides the motive power for a train.

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London Pneumatic Despatch Company

The London Pneumatic Despatch Company (also known as the London Pneumatic Dispatch Company) was formed on 30 June 1859, to design, build and operate an underground railway system for the carrying of mail, parcels and light freight between locations in London.

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Lord Kelvin

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, (26 June 182417 December 1907) was a British mathematician, mathematical physicist and engineer born in Belfast. William Murdoch and Lord Kelvin are People of the Industrial Revolution and Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame inductees.

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Lugar Water

The Lugar Water, or River Lugar, is created by the confluence of the Bellow Water and the Glenmuir Water, just north of Lugar, both of which flow from the hills of the Southern Uplands in East Ayrshire, Scotland.

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Lugar, East Ayrshire

Lugar is a small village in East Ayrshire, southwest Scotland.

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Lunar Society Moonstones

The Moonstones are a set of nine carved sandstone memorials to various members of the Lunar Society.

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Matthew Boulton

Matthew Boulton (3 September 172817 August 1809) was an English businessman, inventor, mechanical engineer, and silversmith. William Murdoch and Matthew Boulton are People of the Industrial Revolution.

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Mauve

Mauve is a pale purple color named after the mallow flower (French: mauve).

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Mechanics

Mechanics (from Ancient Greek: μηχανική, mēkhanikḗ, "of machines") is the area of physics concerned with the relationships between force, matter, and motion among physical objects.

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Mill (grinding)

A mill is a device, often a structure, machine or kitchen appliance, that breaks solid materials into smaller pieces by grinding, crushing, or cutting.

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Millwright

A millwright is a craftsperson or skilled tradesperson who installs, dismantles, maintains, repairs, reassembles, and moves machinery in factories, power plants, and construction sites.

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Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot

Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (26 February 1725 – 2 October 1804) was a French inventor who built the world's first full-size and working self-propelled mechanical land-vehicle, the "Fardier à vapeur" – effectively the world's first automobile.

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North River Steamboat

The North River Steamboat or North River, colloquially known as the Clermont, is widely regarded as the world's first vessel to demonstrate the viability of using steam propulsion for commercial water transportation.

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Old University of Leuven

The Old University of Leuven (or of Louvain) is the name historians give to the university, or studium generale, founded in Leuven, Brabant (then part of the Burgundian Netherlands, now part of Belgium), in 1425.

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Organic chemistry

Organic chemistry is a subdiscipline within chemistry involving the scientific study of the structure, properties, and reactions of organic compounds and organic materials, i.e., matter in its various forms that contain carbon atoms.

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Oscillating cylinder steam engine

An oscillating cylinder steam engine (also known as a wobbler in the US) is a simple steam-engine design (proposed by William Murdoch at the end of 18th century) that requires no valve gear.

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Paddle steamer

A paddle steamer is a steamship or steamboat powered by a steam engine that drives paddle wheels to propel the craft through the water.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom

The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, and may also legislate for the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories.

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Pattern (casting)

In casting, a pattern is a replica of the object to be cast, used to form the sand mould cavity into which molten metal is poured during the casting process.

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Phenol

Phenol (also known as carbolic acid, phenolic acid, or benzenol) is an aromatic organic compound with the molecular formula.

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Pneumatic tube

Pneumatic tubes (or capsule pipelines, also known as pneumatic tube transport or PTT) are systems that propel cylindrical containers through networks of tubes by compressed air or by partial vacuum.

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Pneumatics

Pneumatics (from Greek πνεῦμα 'wind, breath') is a branch of engineering that makes use of gas or pressurized air.

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Pound (mass)

The pound or pound-mass is a unit of mass used in both the British imperial and United States customary systems of measurement.

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Prototype

A prototype is an early sample, model, or release of a product built to test a concept or process.

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PS Caledonia (1815)

Caledonia was a paddle steamer built in Scotland in 1815.

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Redruth

Redruth (Resrudh) is a town and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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Retort

In a chemistry laboratory, a retort is a device used for distillation or dry distillation of substances.

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Rheumatism

Rheumatism or rheumatic disorders are conditions causing chronic, often intermittent pain affecting the joints or connective tissue.

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Rhine

--> The Rhine is one of the major European rivers.

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Richard Trevithick

Richard Trevithick (13 April 1771 – 22 April 1833) was a British inventor and mining engineer. William Murdoch and Richard Trevithick are engineers from Cornwall and People of the Industrial Revolution.

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River Nith

The River Nith (Abhainn Nid; Common Brittonic: Nowios) is a river in south-west Scotland.

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Robert Fulton

Robert Fulton (November 14, 1765 – February 24, 1815) was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the world's first commercially successful steamboat, the (also known as Clermont).

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Rock (geology)

In geology, rock (or stone) is any naturally occurring solid mass or aggregate of minerals or mineraloid matter.

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Rotherhithe

Rotherhithe is a district of South London, England, and part of the London Borough of Southwark.

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Rotterdam

Rotterdam (lit. "The Dam on the River Rotte") is the second-largest city in the Netherlands after the national capital of Amsterdam.

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.

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Royal Pump Rooms

The Royal Pump Rooms is a cultural centre on the Parade in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England.

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Royal Society

The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences.

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Rumford Medal

The Rumford Medal is an award bestowed by the Royal Society for "outstanding contributions in the field of physics".

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Safety valve

A safety valve is a valve that acts as a fail-safe.

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Salammoniac

Salammoniac, also sal ammoniac or salmiac, is a rare naturally occurring mineral composed of ammonium chloride, NH4Cl.

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Samuel Clegg

Samuel Clegg (2 March 1781 – 8 January 1861) was a British engineer, known mostly for his development of the gas works process.

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Scotland

Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame

The Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame honours "those engineers from, or closely associated with, Scotland who have achieved, or deserve to achieve, greatness", as selected by an independent panel representing Scottish engineering institutions, academies, museums and archiving organisations.

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Shilling

The shilling is a historical coin, and the name of a unit of modern currencies formerly used in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, other British Commonwealth countries and Ireland, where they were generally equivalent to 12 pence or one-twentieth of a pound before being phased out during the 1960s and 1970s.

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Slide valve

The slide valve is a rectilinear valve used to control the admission of steam into and emission of exhaust from the cylinder of a steam engine.

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Soho Foundry

Soho Foundry is a factory created in 1775 by Matthew Boulton and James Watt and their sons Matthew Robinson Boulton and James Watt Jr. at Smethwick, West Midlands, England, for the manufacture of steam engines.

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Sphagnum

Sphagnum is a genus of approximately 380 accepted species of mosses, commonly known as sphagnum moss, also bog moss and quacker moss (although that term is also sometimes used for peat).

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St Mary's Church, Handsworth

St Mary's Church, Handsworth, also known as Handsworth Old Church, is a Grade II* listed Anglican church in Handsworth, Birmingham, England.

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Steam cannon

A steam cannon is a cannon that launches a projectile using only heat and water, or using a ready supply of high-pressure steam from a boiler.

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Steam engine

A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.

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Steam turbine

A steam turbine is a machine that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam and uses it to do mechanical work on a rotating output shaft.

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Stirling

Stirling (Stirlin; Sruighlea) is a city in central Scotland, northeast of Glasgow and north-west of Edinburgh.

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Sturgeon

Sturgeon (from Old English styrġa ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *str̥(Hx)yón-) is the common name for the 28 species of fish belonging to the family Acipenseridae.

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Sun and planet gear

The sun and planet gear is a method of converting reciprocating motion to rotary motion and was used in the first rotative beam engines.

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Surrey Commercial Docks

The Surrey Commercial Docks were a large group of docks in Rotherhithe, South East London, located on the south bank (the Surrey side) of the River Thames.

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Tallow

Tallow is a rendered form of beef or mutton suet, primarily made up of triglycerides.

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Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum

Thinktank, Birmingham (formerly known as simply Thinktank) is a science museum in Birmingham, England.

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Tin

Tin is a chemical element; it has symbol Sn and atomic number 50.

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Tonne

The tonne (or; symbol: t) is a unit of mass equal to 1,000 kilograms.

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Treaty of Amiens

The Treaty of Amiens (la paix d'Amiens) temporarily ended hostilities between France, the Spanish Empire, and the United Kingdom at the end of the War of the Second Coalition.

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Truro

Truro (Cornish Standard Written Form) is a cathedral city and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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Twin

Twins are two offspring produced by the same pregnancy.

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Valve

A valve is a device or natural object that regulates, directs or controls the flow of a fluid (gases, liquids, fluidized solids, or slurries) by opening, closing, or partially obstructing various passageways.

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Wallace Monument

The National Wallace Monument (generally known as the Wallace Monument) is a tower on the shoulder of the Abbey Craig, a hilltop overlooking Stirling in Scotland.

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Wanlockhead

Wanlockhead is a village in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, nestling in the Lowther Hills and south of Leadhills at the head of the Mennock Pass, which forms part of the Southern Uplands.

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William Bloye

William James Bloye (8 July 1890 – 6 June 1975) was an English sculptor, active in Birmingham either side of World War II.

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William Fairbairn

Sir William Fairbairn, 1st Baronet of Ardwick (19 February 1789 – 18 August 1874) was a Scottish civil engineer, structural engineer and shipbuilder. William Murdoch and William Fairbairn are Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame inductees.

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William Henry Perkin

Sir William Henry Perkin (12 March 1838 – 14 July 1907) was a British chemist and entrepreneur best known for his serendipitous discovery of the first commercial synthetic organic dye, mauveine, made from aniline. William Murdoch and William Henry Perkin are People of the Industrial Revolution.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Murdoch

Also known as Murdoch, William, The Caledonia (paddle steamer).

, James Boswell, James Watt, James Watt junior, Jean-Pierre Minckelers, Jet (gemstone), Joshua Field (engineer), Kirk, Koblenz, Lantern, Lathe, Leamington Spa, Lime (material), Lobbying, Locomotive, London Pneumatic Despatch Company, Lord Kelvin, Lugar Water, Lugar, East Ayrshire, Lunar Society Moonstones, Matthew Boulton, Mauve, Mechanics, Mill (grinding), Millwright, Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, North River Steamboat, Old University of Leuven, Organic chemistry, Oscillating cylinder steam engine, Paddle steamer, Parliament of the United Kingdom, Pattern (casting), Phenol, Pneumatic tube, Pneumatics, Pound (mass), Prototype, PS Caledonia (1815), Redruth, Retort, Rheumatism, Rhine, Richard Trevithick, River Nith, Robert Fulton, Rock (geology), Rotherhithe, Rotterdam, Royal Navy, Royal Pump Rooms, Royal Society, Rumford Medal, Safety valve, Salammoniac, Samuel Clegg, Scotland, Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame, Shilling, Slide valve, Soho Foundry, Sphagnum, St Mary's Church, Handsworth, Steam cannon, Steam engine, Steam turbine, Stirling, Sturgeon, Sun and planet gear, Surrey Commercial Docks, Tallow, Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum, Tin, Tonne, Treaty of Amiens, Truro, Twin, Valve, Wallace Monument, Wanlockhead, William Bloye, William Fairbairn, William Henry Perkin.

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See also

Engineers from Cornwall

Patternmakers (industrial)

People from Auchinleck

People from Cumnock

Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame inductees

Scottish mechanical engineers

References