Richard Dudgeon
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Dudgeon Steam Automobile (1857)
Richard Dudgeon (1819, Tain – 9 April 1895, New York City)[1] was a mechanic, noted for his inventions of the hydraulic jack and steam carriage. Born in Scotland,[2] he emigrated as a boy with his family to the United States, where he became a mechanic in New York. He founded an engineering machine shop on Broome Street and this prospered, so that he was able to live well nearby and have a country estate in Harlem.[3] The business still exists as Richard Dudgeon, Inc.[4]
References[]
- ^ Willi H. Hager, Dudgeon, in Hydraulicians in the USA 1800-2000: A biographical dictionary of leaders in hydraulic engineering and fluid mechanics, CRC Press, 2015. Page 1989
- ^ Walter A. Woron (1985), Motor Trend, 37,
Richard Dudgeon was born near Edinburgh in 1819, the youngest son of a father with emigration fever
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(help) - ^ Arthur Pound (1975), The golden earth: the story of Manhattan's landed wealth, Ayer Publishing, p. 207, ISBN 978-0-405-06931-4
- ^ Richard Dudgeon, Inc., December 2009
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