Johann Georg Bodmer
1786 Johann Georg Bodmer (1786-1864) born in Zurich, Switzerland
1825 John George Bodmer, Chorlton Row, Manchester, Civil Engineer, became a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers.[1]
1834 Working in the Manchester area and known as John George Bodmer, he hired a workroom at Rothwell and Co in Bolton and built his first railway locomotive
1837-8 concentrated on work for the cotton spinning industry with machine tools and foundry work
1839 Patented a vertical lathe (Patent No. 8070), which he called a Circular Planer' [2]
1841 Listed as 'John George Bodmer, Britannia Foundry, 22 York Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock' [3]
1848 Bodmer left England for Vienna
c.1860 returned to Zurich
1864 Died in Switzerland
See John George Bodmer: Obituary
See John George Bodmer: Patents
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ 1825 Institution of Civil Engineers
- ↑ 'A History of Machine Tools' by W Steeds, OUP 1969
- ↑ 1841 Pigot’s Directory of Manchester and Salford