Beauchamp Tower

This article is about the inventor and engineer. For the edifice, see Tower of London.
Beauchamp Tower
Born 13 January 1845
Moreton, Essex
Died 31 December 1904
Nationality British

Engineering career

Significant advance Hydrodynamic lubrication

Beauchamp Tower (13 January 1845 – 31 December 1904) was an English inventor and railway engineer who is chiefly known for his discovery of full-film or hydrodynamic lubrication.[1]

Early life

Beauchamp Tower was born the son of Robert Beauchamp Tower, rector of Moreton, Essex and educated at Uppingham School, Rutland. He decided at the age of 16 that he wanted to become an engineer and received early training at the Armstrong Works at Elswick, where he stayed for a few months as a draughtsman after completing his four-year apprenticeship.

Inventions

Apparatus for steadying guns on shipboard

Beauchamp Tower held several patents regarding an apparatus for maintaining a constant plane in a floating vessel.[2][3] The apparatus is based on the gyroscopic principle. One of the possible applications of this patent was steadying guns on shipboard.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Illustrations and description of Tower's spherical steam engine". Tower.
  2. ↑ https://www.google.co.in/patents/US366438
  3. ↑ https://www.google.co.in/patents/US464806
  4. ↑ https://www.google.co.in/patents/US640051
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