The Bury-born director took part in events to mark the 200th anniversary yesterday, reading the name of
Joseph Whitworth, a 19-year-old from Hyde who was among the 18 killed when a peaceful protest in the city centre was charged by cavalrymen.
Our latest Engineering Hero, Sir
Joseph Whitworth, died 130 years ago.
Armstrong Mitchell merged again with the engineering firm of
Joseph Whitworth in 1897 to form the Armstrong Whitworth company.
As well as its unique action, the WR Carbine employed a variant of the Whitworth polygonal rifling (earlier on, Westley Richards, along with famed British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunei, had much to do with the development of Sir
Joseph Whitworth's system), which, unlike the usual hexagonal bore seen in Whitworth target and military muzzleloaders, was eight-sided and not extremely angular.
What did Lord Armstrong, Sir
Joseph Whitworth and Benjamin B.
They were met by their guide for the day at Baslow then stopped at Masson Mills, Matlock Bath for coffee and shopping, afterwards visiting the Sir
Joseph Whitworth Centre at Darley Dale before having lunch at the Whitworth Hotel.
Sir
Joseph Whitworth, one of the premier inventors of his age, designed and manufactured this singular rifle in Britain.
The engineer Sir
Joseph Whitworth left a fortune to endow the Whitworth Art Gallery which houses one of the best collections of British watercolours and textiles.
The men who made the North-east great are there too, including Sir Joseph Swan,
Joseph Whitworth, and George Hudson of railways fame.
The British inventor
Joseph Whitworth (1803-1887), for instance, had worked out techniques for producing devices that matched each other not merely to the nearest sixteenth of an inch but to the nearest thousandth.
The street commemorates engineer
Joseph Whitworth and his works.
Bramah had established his own workshop by the late 1770s which trained several famous engineers including Henry Maudslay, Joseph Clement and
Joseph Whitworth.
