List of Cornish engineers and inventors explained

This is a list of engineers and inventors from Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

• John Arnold, watchmaker and pioneer of the marine chronometer^[1]
• William Bickford, inventor of the safety fuse^[2]
• Joseph Henry Collins, mining engineer, mineralogist and geologist ^[3]
• Sir John Coode, civil engineer^[4]
• William Cookworthy, discoverer of china clay (kaolinite) in Cornwall ^[5]
• Sir Humphry Davy, scientist, inventor and President of the Royal Society^[6]
• Sir Goldsworthy Gurney, inventor of limelight^[7]
• Jonathan Hornblower, inventor of the compound engine and the steam valve^[8]
• William Husband, civil and mechanical engineer
• Thomas Brown Jordan, engineer^[9]
• Michael Loam, inventor of the man engine^[10]
• Sir Thomas Matthews, civil engineer and builder of lighthouses
• William Murdoch, engineer, inventor and sometime Cornish resident^[11]
• Andrew Pears, inventor of transparent soap
• William Westcott Rundell, inventor and engineer from Falmouth
• Adrian Stephens, inventor of the steam whistle^[12]
• Richard Tangye, engineer^[13]
• John Taylor, inventor of the Cornish rolls^[14]
• Joseph Thomas, architect and civil engineer
• Joseph Treffry, engineer and industrialist^[15]
• Henry Trengrouse, inventor of a rocket-powered maritime rescue system^[16]
• Richard Trevithick, inventor, engineer and builder of the first steam locomotive^[17]
• Robert Trewhella (1830-1909;), railway engineer and contractor^[18]
• Andrew Vivian, Trevithick's cousin and collaborator, and captain of Dolcoath Mine^[19]
• Arthur Woolf, inventor of the high pressure compound steam engine^[20]

See also

• List of Cornish scientists and inventors

Notes and References

1. Jonathan Betts, ‘Arnold, John (1735/6–1799)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 16 Dec 2008
2. Ronald M. Birse, ‘Bickford, William (bap. 1774, d. 1834)’, rev., Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 16 Dec 2008
3. Web site: Joseph Henry Collins 1841-1916. Bristow. Colin M.. Mineralogical Society. 2008-12-14.
4. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press
5. Winchester, Angus J. L. (2004) ‘Cookworthy, William (1705–1780)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 16 Dec 2008
6. David Knight, ‘Davy, Sir Humphry, baronet (1778–1829)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 16 Dec 2008
7. G. B. Smith, ‘Gurney, Sir Goldsworthy (1793–1875)’, rev. Anita McConnell, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 16 Dec 2008
8. Book: Levine, David . David K. Levine . Boldrin, Michele . Against Intellectual Monopoly . Cambridge University Press . 2008-09-07 . 312 . 978-0-521-87928-6 .
9. [Anita McConnell]
10. Web site: The Man-Engine . Cornish Mining World Heritage Site . 2008-12-16 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070305170637/http://www.cornish-mining.org.uk/story/manengine.htm . 5 March 2007 .
11. John C. Griffiths, ‘Murdock, William (1754–1839)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Oct 2007 accessed 16 Dec 2008
12. Charles E. Lee, "Adrian Stephens, inventor of the steam whistle", in Transactions of the Newcomen Society, 163-73
13. W. B. Owen, ‘Tangye, Sir Richard (1833–1906)’, rev. H. C. G. Matthew, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 16 Dec 2008
14. Earl, Bryan (1994) Cornish Mining: the techniques of metal mining in the West of England, past and present; 2nd ed. St Austell: Cornish Hillside Publications
15. Jack Simmons, ‘Treffry, Joseph Thomas (bap. 1782, d. 1850)’, rev. Edmund Newell, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 16 Nov 2007
16. [A. F. Pollard|Pollard, A. F.]
17. [Philip Payton|Payton, Philip]
18. http://genforum.genealogy.com/cornish/messages/725.html Re: Robert Trewhella, b 1836 - Zennor
19. [Philip Payton|Payton, Philip]
20. Web site: Engineers & Inventors . Cornish Mining World Heritage . 26 June 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110719140806/http://www.cornish-mining.org.uk/story/eng_invent.htm . 19 July 2011 .