GB Patent: GB-181,403,799
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| Steam Engine
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Patentee:
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| John Urpeth Rastrick (exact or similar names) - Bridgnorth, Salop (Shropshire) County, England |
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Patent Dates:
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Apr. 01, 1814 |
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| The inventor was one of the first steam locomotive builders, working with Richard Trevithick. At the time this patent was granted, Rastrick was a partner in Hazledean & Rastrick in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, but the partners had a troubled working relationship and the business was dissolved within a year or two. So far as we can determine, Hazledean & Rastrick never manufactured this engine. Rastrick was quite secretive, keeping his notes in code, and the patent specification apparently tried to avoid revealing enough to allow someone else to build his engine. A search has failed to turn up a patent drawing or specification. In any event, Foster Rastrick & Co. was formed a few years later to manufacture Rastrick's engines. In 1829 a famous early locomotive engine, the Sturbridge Lion, was produced, and was shipped to Honesdale, Pennsylvania. A trial run on wooden tracks with wrought iron running surfaces attached by screws was successful but it was recognized that the composite wood-and-iron tracks would not withstand much use. The locomotive never saw active use and it was eventually dismantled. In 1889, the engine was partially reconstructed with as many original parts as could be found, and was on display for many years at the Smithsonian Institution. A full-scale replica is on exhibit at the Honesdale Museum. Meanwhile, another engine produced by Foster Rastrick in 1829, the Agenoria, stayed in England and was used by the Shutt End Railway for about thirty years. |
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