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Charles Hodgson

From Graces Guide
1869.

Charles Hodgson Civil Engineer.

c.1865 He was the first to seriously deploy a system of overhead ropeways for carriage of materials, this happening when steel ropes first became readily available[1]

1866 Member of I Mech E

1866 Charles Hodgson, Derrylea Peat Works, near Portarlington.[2]

1880 Became a Member again of I Mech E

1896 of Messrs. Saxby and Farmer, Railway Signal Works, Canterbury Road, Kilburn, London, N.W.


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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ The Engineer 1900/06/22
  2. ↑ 1866 Institution of Mechanical Engineers
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