Thomas Aldridge Weston
1861 A draughstman, lodging in Birmingham; in the same house Fritz Simmons 32, Edward Tangye 28, George Tangye 25 were also lodging - all engineers[1]
1867 of 29 Graham St, Birmingham, when he joined the Inst of Mechanical Engineers
By 1877 Weston was in Stamford, Conn., USA[2]
Obituary 1909 [3]
WE have to record with regret the death of Mr. Thomas Aldridge Weston, which occurred on May 3rd at St. Luke's Hospital, New York. Mr. Weston, who was born in Birmingham in 1832, was the inventor of the Weston differential pulley block, and he was also responsible for various other improvements in connection with mechanical engineering work. Weston pulley blocks are manufactured in England by Tangye Brothers and in America by Yale and Towne and Co., and by the Brown Hoist Company, of Cleveland, Ohio. For many years Mr. Weston was associated with the former American company.
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Sources of Information
- ↑ 1861 census
- ↑ The London Gazette 7 August 1877
- ↑ The Engineer 1909/05/14