Arthur Woolf
From Graces Guide
Arthur Woolf (born November 1766, Camborne, Cornwall; died October 26, 1837, Guernsey) was an English engineer.
Woolf left Cornwall in 1785 to work for Joseph Bramah's engineering works in London. He worked there and at other firms as an engineer and engine builder until 1811, when he returned to Cornwall. Michael Loam, inventor of the man engine, was trained by him.
In 1803, Woolf obtained a patent on an improved boiler for producing high pressure steam. In 1805, he patented his best-known invention, a compound steam engine. Later the compound engine was known as machine de Woolf.
Examples of Woolf compound rotative beam engines may be seen at Abbey Pumping Station and Claymills Pumping Station
Sources of Information
- [1] Wikipedia
- A Short History of Naval and Marine Engineering by E. C. Smith. Published 1937