Stanley Charles Cuthbert Currie
Stanley Charles Cuthbert Currie (1856-1916)
1856 Born in Simla, India the son of Charles Currie, Bengal Civil Service, and his wife Marian Upwood.
1882 In conjunction with Illius Augustus Timmis, developed railway signals and points worked by electric power. The method of transmission was that of a long-pull electro-magnet, described in a paper read before the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1884.
1883 Patent. '...Letters Patent granted to Stanley Charles Cuthbert Currie of 21 Clarges-street Piccadilly Gentleman and Illius Augustus Timmis of 17 Great George-street Westminster Civil Engineer both in the county of Middlesex for an Invention of "Improvements in the means for working and interlocking Railway Signals by Electricity." Dated the 12th day of December A.D. 1883...'[1]
Early tests were made in the works of the Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Co., on the railways around Swansea Harbour, and on the Great Northern Railway at Woodside Park Station; also at the Inventions Exhibition at Earl's Court in 1885, and at the Paris Exhibition of 1889, gaining silver medals.
1890 British subject but living in Philadelphia.[2]
1891 First application on the Liverpool Overhead Electric Railway
1897 Extension of the patent was granted for 10 years.[3]
1910 Living in Manhattan, New York. An Electro Chemist.[4]
1916 Died in Montreal.
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The London Gazette Publication date:9 July 1897 Issue:26871 Page:3826
- ↑ Google Patents
- ↑ The Engineer 1897/12/17
- ↑ 1910 US Federal Census