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BRAMAH, JOSEPH (1748-1814)

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BRAMAH, See also:JOSEPH (1748-1814) , See also:English engineer and inventor, was the son of a See also:farmer, and was See also:born at Stainborough, See also:Yorkshire, on the 13th of See also:April 1748. Incapacitated for agricultural labour by an See also:accident to his See also:ankle, on the expiry of his indentures he worked as a See also:cabinet-maker in See also:London, where he subsequently started business on his own See also:account. His first patent for some improvements in the mechanism of See also:water-closets was taken out in 1778. In 1784 he patented the See also:lock known by his name, and in 1795 he invented the See also:hydraulic See also:press. For an important See also:part of this, the See also:collar which secured water-tightness between the plunger and the See also:cylinder in which it st To See also:Brake Cylinder U worked, he was indebted to See also:Henry Maudslay, one of his workmen, who also helped him in designing See also:machines for the manufacture of his locks. In 18o6 he devised for the See also:Bank of See also:England a numerical See also:printing See also:machine, specially adapted for bank-notes. Other inventions of his included the See also:beer-See also:engine for See also:drawing beer, machinery for making aerated See also:waters, planing machines, and improvements in See also:steam-engines and boilers and in See also:paper-making machinery. In 1785 he suggested the possibility of See also:screw propulsion for See also:ships, and in 1802 the hydraulic transmission of See also:power; and he constructed waterworks at See also:Norwich in 1790 and 1793. He died in London on the 9th of See also:December 1814.

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