Peter Carmichael
His father ran Lower Dens Mill from 1819
Peter was trained at Fairbairns at Leeds and in Manchester.
By 1846 he had patented three inventions: the hackling machine, a rubbing machine which helped in the weaving process by controlling the breadth of the cloth, and a rotary gill which Carmichael patented jointly with Peter Fairbairn.
1850 The Upper Dens Works were designed by Randolph Elliot of Glasgow and Peter Carmichael and was constructed to the latest pattern.
1850 Engineer, of Den's Mill[1]
1853 He produced a weft-winding machine
In a series of experiments up to 1854, Carmichael produced a modification of the reeling machine devised by William Nairn in about 1845.
1858 Carmichael improved the finishing process using hydraulic pressure to hold cast-iron and paper cylinders for calendering at the correct pressure.
1861 A Peter Carmichael (was it the same one?) read a paper on chimneys before the Institution of Engineers in Scotland[2]
1866 The approach to design established at Upper Dens was followed almost exactly at Lower Dens, also designed by Carmichael (1866) and at Ward Mills in 1867.
1870 Peter Carmichael, of Dens Works, Dundee, read a paper before the Institution of Engineers in Scotland on his observations of the brittleness of the iron plates from 2 Manchester boilers that had been taken out of service after 19 years; the boilers had been made by a different company with similar name Carmichael and Co of Ward Foundry, Dundee[3]
1882 A Peter Carmichael was recorded as of Baxter Brothers and Co, Arthurstone[4]
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Sources of Information
- [1] Dundee textile industry