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William Murdoch was a Scottish chemist, inventor, and mechanical engineer.
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science · Scottish engineer and inventor (1754–1839) · inventor · engineer · chemist · also William Murdoch, William Murdock, Murdoch
Born 21 August 1754 · Died 15 November 1839 · Q451444
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It was a dark winter's night and how to reach the house over such bad roads was a question not easily solved. Mr Murdoch, however, fruitful in resource, went to the gasworks where he filled a bladder which he had with him, and, placing it under his arm like a bagpipe, he discharged through the stem of an old tobacco pipe a stream of gas which enabled us to walk in safety to Medlock Bank.
Account of the Application of Gas from Coal to Economical Purposes
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“It was a dark winter's night and how to reach the house over such bad roads was a question not easily solved. Mr Murdoch, however, fruitful in resource, went to the gasworks where he filled a bladder which he had with him, and, placing it under his arm like a bagpipe, he discharged through the stem of an old tobacco pipe a stream of gas which enabled us to walk in safety to Medlock Bank.”
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“Account of the Application of Gas from Coal to Economical Purposes”
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Was inducted into the Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame
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A bust of Murdoch was unveiled by Lord Kelvin in the Wallace Monument, Stirling, and there is also a bust of him by Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey at St
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And in 1853 was found, by Charles Gerhardt to contain the chemical acetylsalicylic acid, now known as aspirin
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Died 1839-11-15.
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Murdoch moved into a large new house he had built outside Birmingham
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That they became seriously involved in the marine engineering business
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Designed and installed the first gravity-fed, piped hot water system since classical times at the Royal Pump Rooms, Leamington Spa
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This was further developed and patented for stone pipes), a steam cannon which he attempted to use in 1803 to knock down a wall at Soho, a steam gun in the same year which fired 3 cm lead bullets, and machinery to grind
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Came to an end, at which point he was receiving £1,000 per year
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For Robert Fulton the engine for North River Steamboat, the first steamboat to run on the Hudson River, (the boat later referred to as the Clermont)
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Won Rumford Medal (1806).
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Four years after the idea was first broached
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As part of the public celebrations of the Peace of Amiens he made a public exhibition of his lighting by illuminating the exterior of the Soho Foundry
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Born 1754-08-21.
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