Thomas Russell Crampton
Engineer, Project participant
1816 – 1888
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Who was Thomas Russell Crampton?
Thomas Russell Crampton, MICE, MIMechE was an English engineer born at Broadstairs, Kent, and trained on Brunel's Great Western Railway.
He is best known for designing the Crampton locomotive but had many engineering interests including the electric telegraph and the Channel Tunnel for which he designed a boring machine. His locomotives had much better success in France, Germany and Italy than they did in the UK.
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- Born
- Aug 6, 1816
Broadstairs - Spouses
- Louisa Martha Hall
(1841/02/25 - 1875/03/16) - Elizabeth Werge
(1881/08/25 - )
- Louisa Martha Hall
- Children
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Lived in
- Broadstairs
- Died
- Apr 19, 1888
City of Westminster
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on July 23, 2013
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