Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:William Murdock NPG 316a(92) National Portrait Gallery, Londonby Sir Francis Leggatt ChantreyA significant contributor to the advance of technology in four major areas: steam engine design; self-propelled vehicl
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
William Murdock NPG 316a(92)
National Portrait Gallery, London
by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey
A significant contributor to the advance of technology in four major areas: steam engine design; self-propelled vehicles; machine tools and gas lighting. Brought up in his father’s trade of engineering, in 1776 he secured a position with the Birmingham steam engine manufacturing firm of Boulton and Watt. He swiftly became the firm’s principal pattern maker and assistant engine builder and spent the next twenty years improving on Watt’s basic design. In about 1792, he began experimenting on the illuminating properties of gases. His… more
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Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.
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