James Henry Greathead information

James Henry Greathead (6 August 1844 – 21 October 1896) was an English mechanical and civil engineer renowned for his work on the London Underground railways...

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afterwards. Brunel's original design was substantially improved upon by James Henry Greathead who was granted three patents for different shield designs. Additionally...

Henry Francis Greathead (1757–1818) was a pioneering rescue lifeboat builder from South Shields. Although Lionel Lukin had patented a lifeboat in 1785...

passenger lifts required to reach the DLR. In January 1994, a statue of James Henry Greathead was erected outside the station, next to the Royal Exchange. It...

a cast iron circular shield independently invented and built by James Henry Greathead, similar to an idea that had been not received a patent in 1864...

died in World War I and World War II. There is also a statue of James Henry Greathead, responsible for an improved tunnelling shield which enabled construction...

on the City & South London Railway under Sir Benjamin Baker and James Henry Greathead. Early projects included the reconstruction and extension of the...

River Mersey. Brunel's tunnelling shield was later refined, with James Henry Greathead playing a particularly important role in developing the technology...

world's first tunnelling shields in the same year as famed engineer James Henry Greathead. His patent agency eventually brought him fame and fortune, and...

tunnel 2 Aug 1870 Water pipe, optical fiber Peter W. Barlow and James Henry Greathead. The world's first underground tube railway. A rail tunnel for 3...

was constructed using a Greathead tunnelling shield and compressed air techniques (named after its inventor, James Henry Greathead). It was lit by three...

drawing, in 1914, "the map that saved the London Underground". James Henry Greathead (1844–1896) was the engineer that dug the Tower Subway using a method...

Humphry Davy Geordie lamp – George Stephenson Tunnel boring machine – James Henry Greathead and Isambard Kingdom Brunel Concertina – Charles Wheatstone Theatre...

the City and South London Railway (C&SLR) was started in 1886 by James Henry Greathead using a development of Barlow's shield. Two 10-foot-2-inch (3.10 m)...

promoter of the bill, and engineer of the proposed railway, was James Henry Greathead, who had, in 1869–70, constructed the Tower Subway using the same...

1900) 1844 – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1900) 1844 – James Henry Greathead, South African-English engineer (d. 1896) 1848 – Susie Taylor, American...

Railway Act 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. cx). Engineers Sir Douglas Fox and James Henry Greathead were commissioned to design the railway. Steam traction was considered...

19 – Emmy Rappe, Swedish nursing pioneer (b. 1835) October 21 – James Henry Greathead, British engineer and inventor (b. 1844) October 23 – Columbus Delano...

Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian author, poet, and critic (b. 1807) 1896 – James Henry Greathead, South African-English engineer (b. 1844) 1903 – Jinmaku Kyūgorō...

the automatic machine gun, Sir Henry Bessemer, engineer and inventor of the famous steel process, James Henry Greathead who tunnelled much of the London...

wrought iron tunnelling shield, devised by Peter W. Barlow and James Henry Greathead, and of a permanent tunnel lining of cast iron segments. August...

engineer and military commander James Henry Greathead Samuel Arnold Greeley American civil engineer, textbook author James Green British canal engineer Charles...

Grätzel (born 1944), Germany/Switzerland – Dye-sensitized solar cell James Henry Greathead (1844–1896), South Africa – tunnel boring machine, tunnelling shield...