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	Joseph Whitworth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Whitworth was born in Stockport and at a young age developed an interest in machinery.
		Whitworth was commissioned by the War Department of the British government to design a replacement for the Pattern 1853 calibre.577-inch Enfield Rifle, whose shortcomings had been revealed during the recent Crimean War.
		The Whitworth rifle had a smaller bore of 0.45 inch (11 mm) which was hexagonal, a longer bullet and tighter rifling than the Enfield, and its performance during tests in 1859 was superior to the Enfield in every way.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joseph_Whitworth (790 words)

	WHITWORTH - LoveToKnow Article on WHITWORTH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In constructing them Whitworth experienced difficulty in getting large steel castings of suitable soundness and ductility, and thus was led about 1870 to devise his compressed steel process, in which the metal is subjected to high pressure while still in the fluid state, and is afterwards forged in hydraulic presses, not by hammers.
		In 1868 he founded the Whitworth scholarships, setting aside an annual sum of 3000 to be given for " intelligence and proficiency in the theory and practice of mechanics and its cognate sciences," and in the following year he was created a baronet.
		In addition to handing over 100,000 to the Science and Art Department for the permanent endowment of the thirty Whitworth scholarships, his residuary legatees, in pursuance of what they knew to be his intentions, expended over half a million on charitable and educational objects, mainly in Manchester and the neighborhood.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /W/WH/WHITWORTH.htm (587 words)

	Famous English Men Sir Joseph Whitworth
		Joseph Whitworth was born in Stockport in 1803.
		Whitworth studied the machinery in the factory and was critical of the poor standards of workmanship and this inspired him to become an engineer.
		Whitworth produced a far better rifle, and although rejected by the War Office, it was adopted by the French Army, and also by America.
	www.englandsportal.com /whitworth.html (262 words)

	Derbyshire People - Joseph Whitworh - English engineer and inventor
		Joseph Whitworth, English Engineer and inventor, was born in Stockport near Manchester in 1804.
		Whitworth was married twice, first to Frances Ankes in 1825, then Lady Mary Louisa, 25 years his younger, who played a central part in the lives of the people of Darley Dale, where in 1855, he bought the 400 acre estate and it's Elizabethan Hall.
		Whitworth is buried in the churchyard of St Helen's in Darley Dale.
	www.derbyshireuk.net /whitworth.html (486 words)

	Whitworth Rifled Ordnance
		Now Whitworth knew little about small arms or ordnance, so in 1855 conducted a series of experiments from which he deduced the twist of the rifling to be too slow for the length and weight of the bullet, causing it to become unstable at the longer ranges.
		There is little doubt Whitworth pioneered the system later called QF for when he used the gun as a breech-loader he enclosed the propellant charge in a sheet iron cartridge case shaped to fit the hexagonal bore, thus effectively providing obturation.
		Whitworth pioneered the use of streamlined shot and shell, and demonstrated the significant increase in range obtainable.
	www.geocities.com /CapeCanaveral/Hangar/3337/hotg/Guns/rifled2.htm (1160 words)

	Whitworth Rifle
		The Whitworth is renowned for being the most accurate muzzle loading military rifle made, and is most often remembered for it's unique rifling.
		The primary reason that the Whitworth remained a sniper rifle instead of becoming standard issue to troops is the problems encountered in loading the second or third shot.
		Joseph Whitworth was one of the UK's most outstanding engineers, at a time when British engineers were the best in the world.
	johno.myiglou.com /whitworth.htm (683 words)

	Armstrong Whitworth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth and Co Ltd was a major British manufacturing company of the early years of the 20th century.
		Headquartered in Newcastle upon Tyne, Armstrong Whitworth engaged in the construction of, ships, locomotives, automobiles, and aircraft.
		The company was formed in 1897 as a merger of the engineering firms of William Armstrong and Joseph Whitworth.
	www.bucyrus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Armstrong-Whitworth (269 words)

	JOSEPH CLEMENT FACTS AND INFORMATION
		He was baptised Joseph Clemmet 13_June 1779 at Great_Asby in Westmorland, the son of a hand-loom_weaver.
		Although he was taught to read and write at the local school, he learnt mechanics and natural_history from his father, Thomas, who had built himself a lathe.
		In 1813 he moved to London, first at Galloway in Holborn then progressing to be works manager for Joseph Bramah at Pimlico.
	www.dontpayyourtaxes.com /Joseph_Clement (323 words)

	Fathom :: The Source for Online Learning
		Joseph Whitworth was one of the first to do this, and his business became one of the biggest.
		Whitworth started off as a one-man operation, but grew with remarkable rapidity to be fairly substantial in size.
		Whitworth's display was received with enthusiasm at the Exhibition and it was around this time that his position as one of the foremost designers of machine tools and great authorities on manufacturing was consolidated.
	www.fathom.com /feature/122254 (1356 words)

	Whitworth Sharpshooter Rifle
		Sir Joseph Whitworth of England created a rifle with a twisted hexagonal bore and then shaped bullets to match this bore.
		Some sources indicate that the Whitworth Rifle Co. of Manchester went bankrupt after the war and that the records of the company are not preserved.
		Sir Joseph Whitworth was born 1803 in Stockport (the son of a schoolmaster) and as a young boy went to Derbyshire and learnt about textile machinery.
	www.americancivilwar.org.uk /articles/whitworth.htm (1459 words)

	SCREW - LoveToKnow Article on SCREW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The first attempt at securing uniformity in screw threads was made by Sir Joseph Whitworth, who communicated a paper on the subject to the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1841.
		When the Whitworth threads were accepted in England, Germany and the United States, it appeared as though they were established for ever in an impregnable position, as a unification evolved from chaos.
		The two great attacks that have been made on the Whitworth thread came, one from the Franklin Institute in 1864, when the Sellers thread was adopted and recommended to American engineers, and the other in 1873, when Delisle of Carisruhe initiated a metric system.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SC/SCREW.htm (7663 words)

	British Fasteners
		Whitworth threads are now a thing of the past, which is really too bad, because this fastening system has a lot to offer.
		The death knell for Whitworth threads was rung during WWII when it became apparent that a common thread system was desperately required for the Allies.
		Sir Joseph Whitworth was born in 1803 in Stockport, a grimy area of the industrial north west of England.
	www.enginehistory.org /british_fasteners.htm (1432 words)

	Joseph Whitworth
		Notes: This is an obverse model for the Whitworth scholarship medal (cf.
		Joseph Whitworth (1803-1887) was a mechanical engineer and public benefacto, who in 1868 endowed the Science & Art Department with £100,000, to award a number of scholarships annually.
		A portrait medal, for which this obverse forms a trial, was struck in 1883 for Whitworth's eightieth birthday.
	www.christophereimer.co.uk /single/8014.html (194 words)

	John Rylands, Henry Whitwoth, Lord Ernest Simon, Thomas la Warre, and Philanthropy in Manchester
		Born in Stockport in 1803, Sir Joseph Whitworth was a celebrated philanthropist and engineer, whose name is remembered throughout Manchester in many street names, an art gallery and a park.
		By the age of 14, Joseph was working in his uncle's cotton mill in Derbyshire, demonstrating an adaptive and inquisitive mind, and a thorough understanding of all the machines used in cotton production.
		Whitworth Park near the University of Manchester and the Whitworth Art Gallery are both named after him.
	www.manchester2002-uk.com /celebs/philanthropy2.html (1508 words)

	Whitworth, Joseph (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Whitworth was born in Stockport, Cheshire, and left school at 14.
		Whitworth brought standardization to his company and the engineering industry as a whole by developing means of measuring to tolerances never before possible, so that shafts, bearings, gears, and screws could be interchanged.
		At the Whitworth works, guns of all sizes were produced, and Whitworth supervised many experiments to investigate the forces acting on the breech and barrel of a gun.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/W/Whitworth/1.html (186 words)

	Joseph Whitworth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Whitworth designed and built a variety of machines including a knitting machine (1835) and a horse-drawn mechanical road sweeper (1842).
		Whitworth went on to develop field guns and other heavy artillery.
		By 1860 Whitworth's specifications for sizes of screw threads was generally accepted throughout Britain and the Whitworth thread form is still the basis for metric standard threads.
	basil.acs.bolton.ac.uk /~mjh1hlc/whitworth.htm (176 words)

	Inventors and Inventions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Joseph Jacquard and the mechanization of silk manufacture -- Charles Babbage was later to adapt Jacquard's punch-card system to produce a calculator that was the forerunner today's methods of computer programming
		Joseph Whitworth built a successful knitting machine (1835) and a horse-drawn mechanical roadsweeper (1842).
		By 1860 Whitworth's specifications for sizes of screw threads was generally accepted throughout Britain.
	idcs0100.lib.iup.edu /IndRev/inventio.htm (182 words)

	Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Glossary W
		Whitworth fasteners were used in British industry up until the late 1960's, when Britain adopted the metric system.
		This is because the dimension given on a Whitworth wrench is the diameter of the bolt thread usual for that size wrench, rather than the size of the head.
		Some Whitworth wrenches even have two marked sizes, because the same head size is used with one coarse thread and a different diameter fine thread.
	www.sheldonbrown.com /gloss_w.html (2590 words)

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		Sir Joseph Whitworth, the Victorian mechanical engineer, purchased Stancliffe Hall in 1854 and took up permanent residence there in 1872 with his second wife, Mary Louise.
		Whitworth extended the hall, extensively landscaped the gardens and built a large conservatory and a number of cottages for his estate workers.
		After Whitworth's death Lady Whitworth paid for the building of the Whitworth Hospital and the Whitworth Institute and Park, as well as establishing scholarships at local schools.
	www.darleydale.gov.uk /history04.htm (234 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sir Joseph Whitworth was probably the best mechanical engineer Britain had during his lifetime.
		One of his better know inventions was the Whitworth cannon and rifle with their corresponding projectiles.
		Whitworth cannon were used at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Vicksburg, Mississippi, Fredericksburg, Virginia, Fort Fisher, North Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, as well as other American Civil War battlefields.
	www.civilwarartillery.com /inventors/whitworth.htm (216 words)

	AMADirectlink -- What's a whit worth?
		After all, Brit Sir Joseph Whitworth's off-size nuts and bolts are not quite metric, not quite SAE, and they can be maddening to discover when you're elbow-deep in a Triumph Bonneville or a Royal Enfield Bullet.
		Based on the earlier work of Joseph Clement, who established the concept of a standard thread pitch, Whitworth proposed a system where thread pitch and depth would be based on the diameter of the fastener.
		There is almost no overlap between the Whitworth, Metric, and SAE systems (click here for table), making a set of BSW (British Standard Whitworth) wrenches a mandatory purchase for anyone with a classic British bike or Madras-built Royal Enfield.
	www.ama-cycle.org /features/whitworth.asp (772 words)

	Whitworth Genealogy Research Services - Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and ...
		The research of the extent of the Whitworth name and the migration of Whitworth families throughout the UK and the rest of the world has become a major project for me. I have managed to trace my own family to 1638 when John Whitworth, a flsmith, lived in the parish of Heath in Derbyshire England.
		Many Whitworth family members born in the UK and usually baptised there, fail to appear in any subsequent type of record.
		Whitworth entries extracted from the 2% sample of the 1851 census.
	www.rww96.demon.co.uk (2113 words)

	Joseph Whitworth
		By the time of the Great Exhibition in 1851 Whitworth had acquired a world-wide reputation of producing machines of unrivaled quality and precision.
		The Crimean War (1854-56) revealled that the Enfield Rifle, the main gun used by the British Army, was unreliable.
		Whitworth produced a far better rifle, and although rejected by the War Office, it was adopted by the French Army.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /SCwhitworth.htm (309 words)

	whitworth
		Around 1841, the brilliant engineer Joseph Whitworth realised that this was not a good idea, and decided to try to establish some kind of standard.
		What he came up with was the Whitworth thread - this had an internal angle of 55 degrees, and a depth and pitch of thread that varied with the diameter of the thread - ie, the bigger the bolt, the coarser the thread.
		After a while, it was realised that the Whitworth thread form was a touch coarse for all applications, and the British Standards Institue recognised the British Standard Whitworth (BSW) thread and introduced the British Standard Fine (BSF) thread in 1908.
	www.gomog.com /allmorgan/whitworth.html (917 words)

	Making the Modern World - Joseph Whitworth
		Whitworth rose from obscurity to become the most revered machine toolmaker and engineer of the mid-nineteenth century.
		By the 1820s he was an expert on cotton mill machinery, then moved to London in 1825 to work for Maudslay, the Holtzapffels and Joseph Clement, respectively.
		Whitworth's major contributions were pioneering precise measurement; establishing a national standard screw thread; manufacturing superior small arms and the 'Whitworth' rifle; and furthering the cause of technical education and the training of engineering students.
	www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk /people/BG.0123 (173 words)

	The Andrews Pages : Darley, DBY : Kelly's Directory, 1891 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Cottage Hospital, erected by the trustees of the late Sir Joseph Whitworth Bart 1889, is beautifully situated on an elevation and is available for 16 patients.
		Stancliffe Hall, the seat of Lady Whitworth, is a mansion of stone in the Tudor style, with gardens and pleasure grounds, a chief feature being the magnificent rockery, planted with choice and suitable shrubs, which the late Sir Joseph Whitworth constructed at great length out of a sandstone quarry.
		Lady Whitworth, the trustees of the late Charles Baldwin Dakeyne, B.L. Barrow esq.
	www.andrewspages.dial.pipex.com /dby/kelly/darley.htm (911 words)

	Whitworth, Sir Joseph, Baronet -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the 1980s Kathy Whitworth surpassed Mickey Wright and Sam Snead as the professional golfer with the most career wins, setting a new record at 88.
		Born in Monahans, Tex., she won three Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) championships (1967, 1971, 1975) and was the leading LPGA winner from 1965 to 1968 and from 1970 to 1973.
		Pioneer Presbyterian preacher George Frederic Whitworth founded an academy in 1883 that developed into a college in 1890 and was named in his honor.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9076897 (703 words)

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