John Blenkinsop
British mining engineer and an inventor of steam locomotives (1783ā1831) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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John Blenkinsop (1783 ā 22 January 1831) was an English mining engineer and an inventor of steam locomotives, who designed the first practical railway locomotive.[1]
John Blenkinsop | |
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Born | 1783 |
Died | 22 January 1831 (aged 47) |
Nationality | English |
Occupation(s) | Engineer, inventor |
Relatives | Thomas Barnes (cousin) |
He was born in Felling, County Durham, the son of a stonemason and was apprenticed to his cousin, Thomas Barnes, a Northumberland coal viewer. From 1808 he became agent to Charles John Brandling, who owned collieries on his Middleton estate near Leeds and whose family came from Felling. From then until his death, Blenkinsop lived at Middleton Hall on Town Street, Middleton, built in the 17th century as the Brandling family's Middleton home (they used the far more modern Middleton Lodge when visiting from their Tyneside homes).