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Sir Joseph Whitworth, 1st Baronet was an English engineer, entrepreneur, inventor and philanthropist. In 1841, he devised the British Standard Whitworth system, which created an accepted standard for screw threads. Whitworth also created the Whitworth rifle, often called the "sharpshooter" because of its accuracy, which is considered one of the earliest examples of a sniper rifle, used by some Con…
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business · English engineer, entrepreneur, inventor and philanthropist (1803–1887) · engineer · entrepreneur · inventor · designer · also Joseph Whitworth, Sir Joseph Whitworth, J. Whitworth, Whitworth
Born 21 December 1804 · Died 22 January 1887 · Q712307
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The Whitworth Society was founded by Henry Selby Hele-Shaw, then president of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers to support all Whitworth Scholars and to promote engineering in the UK
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Christie personally assigned more than £50,000 for the erection of the Whitworth Building, to complete the front quadrangle of Owens College
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Died 1887-01-22.
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Whitworth donated much of his fortune for the people of Manchester, with the Whitworth Art Gallery and Christie Hospital partly funded by Whitworth
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Queen Victoria made Whitworth a baronet
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Won Albert Medal (1868).
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Founded the Whitworth Scholarship for the advancement of mechanical engineering
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By firing a Whitworth rifle from a fixed mechanical rest
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Was superior to the Enfield's in every way
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Bought Stancliffe Hall in Darley Dale, Derbyshire and moved there with his second wife Louisa in 1872
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Along with his lifelong friend, artist and art educator George Wallis (1811–1891), he was appointed a British commissioner for the New York International Exhibition
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Then a President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, he built a house called 'The Firs' in Fallowfield in south Manchester designed by Edward Walters
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Whitworth devised a standard for screw threads with a fixed thread angle of 55° and having a standard pitch for a given diameter
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Devised the British Standard Whitworth system, which created an accepted standard for screw threads
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Was a measuring technique called "end measurements" that used a precision flat plane and measuring screw, both of his own invention
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To start his own business manufacturing lathes and other machine tools, which became renowned for their high standard of workmanship
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Born 1804-12-21.
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