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	Robert William Thomson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert William Thomson (1822-1873) was a Scottish inventor.
		Born in Stonehaven, Thomson patented among other things the vulcanised rubber double tube tyre in 1845, and a glass fountain pen in 1849.
		He also developed the technique of firing explosive charges using electricity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Thomson_(inventor) (87 words)

	DAVID THOMSON, THE SCOTTISH FOUNDER OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
		She was the daughter of Princess Margaret (daughter of Robert III and Annabelle Drummond) and Archibald, the 4th Earl of Douglas, aka the Duke of Tourraine.
		In addition, Thomson’s salary drew from two parishes in the Borders: Kelso, and Ashkirk; two parishes in Peebles-shire: Stobo (twice), and Kilbocho; and a series of places in the Bishopric of St Andrews, all of which appear to be in Fife: Middilfuddy, Kenyeoqhuy, Kincapill, Bonytoun, Laderny, Kinnaird, and the rich and beautiful parish of Kembak.
		In 1605, Rev. Thomson was made the Clerk to the Commissioners of the General Assembly of the Kirk (Church) of Scotland, and was forced to choose between King or Kirk.
	www.scotsgenealogy.com /online/DavidPart02.htm (5812 words)

	SaxCollector.com - Adolphe Sax, Inventor of the Saxophone
		The young inventor, who was also an excellent performer, acted as did the Virgilian shepherds and the medieval troubadours: he challenged his antagonist to a musical duel; both played in turn anti the result was a triumph for Sax and his bass-clarinet.
		The young inventor --he was now twenty-eight -- had to pay the ransom for his genial creativeness: he had to face the envy and jealousy, the wrath and hatred of his rivals and colleagues; he underwent all kinds of misery, suffering and afflictions.
		We know that the inventor was busy until the last moment building and improving his saxophone; he went to the performance with an instrument hastily arranged, some parts of it fixed with string and sealing wax.
	www.saxcollector.com /adolphesax.html (7994 words)

	ASME History and Heritage: Biographies
		Robert Fulton (1765-1815), U.S. mechanical engineer, is known for the development of the steamboat into a commercial success (Clermont, 1807).
		Robert Stephenson (1803-1859), British railway engineer, son of George Stephenson, was the second president of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
		Robert Henry Thurston (1839-1903), first president of ASME (1880-82), established the first mechanical laboratory in 1875, at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, where he was professor of mechanical engineering (having first established the curriculum there in 1871).
	www.asme.org /history/biography.html (8948 words)

	AIP International Catalog of Sources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Thomson, Silvanus P. Todd, David P. (David Peck), 1855-1939.
		Elihu Thomson was an electrical engineer, inventor, business man, andentrepreneur who figured prominently in the development of early electric light and power systems in the United States.
		The collection is described by John L. Haney, "The Elihu Thomson Collection," American Philosophical Society Year Book 1944 and by W. Bernard Carlson, "The Elihu Thomson Papers: A Planning Report," photo-reproduced under the aegis of the University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of History and Sociology of Science, (Sept. 1980), iv and 83 p.
	www.aip.org /history/catalog/5488.html (800 words)

	History of the Thomson Family
		Thomson (without the 'p') is the most frequent spelling in Scotland; Thompson is found more in the North of England and Thomas in Wales.
		Alexander "Greek" Thomson was a 19th century architect of note who is becoming more recognised at the end of the 20th.
		Robert William Thomson invented the pneumatic tyre in December 1845 and scientist and inventor William Thomson, though born in Belfast, became associated with Glasgow University and became Lord Kelvin
	www.rampantscotland.com /clans/blclanthomson.htm (375 words)

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		Thomson's many achievements in the development of late 19th and early 20th century technology as well as his involvement in the growth of the Thomson-Houston companies and the General Electric Company are the primary subjects of this collection.
		Thomson was a remarkably focused person who knew clearly that he was not interested in business administration or management and so removed himself from those elements as they developed from his scientific ideas and inventions.
		Since Thomson was so often consulted by other scientists and laypersons, it is difficult to distinguish between his work as a GE employee and his "personal" interests, often documented in letters addressed to him (and certainly answered by him) at his GE addresses.
	www.amphilsoc.org /library/mole/t/thomson.xml (4192 words)

	Elihu Thomson -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Thomson left England for Philadelphia as a child and later taught chemistry and mechanics at the…
		The renowned British physicist Joseph J. Thomson was the discoverer of the electron.
		William Thomson, who became Lord Kelvin of Largs (Scotland) in 1892, was one of Great Britain's foremost scientists and inventors.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9072201 (603 words)

	Thomson, Robert - Scotland with Encyclopedia Alba
		Scottish inventor Robert Thomson developed a number of mechanisms and patents.
		Thomson's patents include a type of fountain pen (which he patented in 1849) and an India rubber pneumatic tyre.
		Robert Thomson is also known for developing a method of firing explosive charges by using electricity.
	www.clyde-valley.com /athomsonrobert (159 words)

	scottish heritage - genealogy scotland - clans - scottish associations - historical attractions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Robert was primed to study for the ministry, but an innate inability to learn Latin made him refuse this path.
		Thomson went on to work for the contractors Sir William Cubitt and Robert Stephenson, later branching out on his own as a consultant in 1844.
		Thomson died at the early age of 50, at his home in Moray Place, Edinburgh, in 1873.
	www.scotlandonline.com /heritage/heritage_gscots_detail.cfm?id=153 (614 words)

	British Realists, Simenon and Matsumoto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Thomson's tale reminds one of Anna Katherine Green's "Room No. 3", which takes place in a country inn in Ohio.
		Thomson was a real life member of Scotland Yard, and most of his books are now considered to be early police procedural works.
		Robert Eustace, Freeman, the Coles, Valentine Williams and Cornier here are all into freezing as the technological marvel of the age.
	members.aol.com /MG4273/coles.htm (16617 words)

	Clark County, Ohio History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Roberts bought out his employers, and has since conducted business for himself, being associated part of the time with his brother, who is now proprietor of boiler works on Washington street.
		Roberts has thus risen, by his energy and industry, from an employe to the head of an important industry, manufacturing the Victory corn-grinder at his machine-shops, on Bridge street, between Spring and Gallagher, and doing a large business in the manufacture of boilers at the Leffel works.
		Roberts is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and an industrious, useful citizen.
	www.heritagepursuit.com /Clark/ClarkSpringfieldbio(2).htm (16032 words)

	General Register Office for Scotland - Science, Engineering & Industry
		Robert's distinctive neo-classical style was inspired by his studies of ancient Italian architecture.
		Inventor of the 'Tarmacadam' or tarmac surface for roads.His interest in roads developed when he was a volunteer during the Napoleonic wars but he did not become a professional road-engineer until 1816 when he was 60 years of age.
		Thomson was sent to America to become a merchant, but returned to Scotland to train as an engineer.
	www.gro-scotland.gov.uk /famrec/from-our-records/hallfame/science-engineering-and-industry.html (1432 words)

	Unwritten History Braddock's Field - Edgar Thomson Steel Works
		Bitterly resenting this slight, Captain Jones resigned, and in August, 1873, came to Edgar Thomson as master mechanic, incidentally breaking up the entire Cambria organization, and bringing with him a nucleus of devoted fellow workers who were experienced steel men, and made the new plant the success that it was.
		All of the Edgar Thomson firm were not interested in Lucy's welfare, and hence discussions arose as to the proper price Edgar Thomson should pay for pig iron.
		To the Edgar Thomson management must be given full credit for the development of the Flue Dust Briquetting process, and the perfection of the high Carbon splice bar, both of which processes have advanced very far beyond what they were on inception at this plant.
	www.15122.com /3rivers/History/BraddocksField/EdgarThomson.htm (9740 words)

	Jonathan Lewis' Weblog
		Thomson rejected careers in religion and commerce in favor of mechanical and civil engineering.
		Thomson's patent described an inflatable rubber inner tube surrounded by a protecting cover of e.g.
		The Indispensable Pneumatic Tyre and its Scottish inventor Robert William Thomson 1822-1873.
	homepage.mac.com /jonathan_lewis/blog/2004/07 (1965 words)

	Page 2 - Scientists & Inventors List
		In 1925 he gave the first public demonstration of television and in 1926 pioneered fibre optics, radar (in advance of Robert Watson-Watt), and 'noctovision', a system for seeing at night by using infrared rays.
		Thomson's invention had gone practically unnoticed, whereas Dunlop's arrived at a crucial time in the development of transport, and with the rubber industry well established.
		The first pneumatic rubber tyre was patented in 1845 by the Scottish engineer Robert William Thomson, but it was Scottish inventor John Boyd Dunlop who independently reinvented pneumatic tyres for use with bicycles 1888–89.
	members.aol.com /alibenson/page2.htm (3033 words)

	Robert Thomson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert Thomson could be one of several individuals:
		Robert James Thomson, Australian journalist and editor of The Times
		This is a disambiguation page — a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Thomson (82 words)

	Embryonic Stem Cell Research at UW-Madison
		James Thomson, the UW-Madison scientist who was the first to isolate and culture human embryonic stem cells five years ago, has been named the recipient of the 2003 Frank Annunzio Award from the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation, an independent federal government agency.
		Thomson received his $50,000 award at an Oct. 13 luncheon in Washington, D.C. following the annual celebration in honor of Christopher Columbus.
		Thomson, the UW-Madison John D. McArthur professor of anatomy, is internationally known for his work with human embryonic stem cells, blank slate cells that arise at the earliest stages of development and are capable of becoming any of the 220 types of cells and tissues in the body.
	www.news.wisc.edu /packages/stemcells/9041.html (448 words)

	Thomson Coat of Arms, Family Crest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Edward Thomson arrived on the "Mayflower" at Plymouth, Mass.
		in 1620; Andrew Thomson settled in Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, in 1801; Dugald Thomson settled in New York in 1739.
		The line of Stewart monarchs of Scotland began in 1371, descending from the union of Marjorie, daughter of King Robert the Bruce and Walter, the 6th High Steward of Scotland.
	www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp/sID./s.Thomson/qx/coatofarms_details.htm (1040 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Scotland - City police a force for 200 years
		One person who has traced the history of crime in the Capital is Edinburgh-based crime writer Alanna Knight, who researched crimes during the last century while writing her book Close and Deadly: Chilling Murders in the Heart of Edinburgh.
		Thomson was gunned down at the age of 38 by a drunken Army sergeant in 1940 and was the last policeman to be killed while on duty the city.
		SIR Robert Peel is popularly thought to be the inventor of the modern police force after founding the Metropolitan Police in 1829.
	news.scotsman.com /scotland.cfm?id=599502005 (1380 words)

	FREELOAD
		Inventor of the pedal-steel guitar played in "country music": Loretta Lynn.
		Inventor of FM radio transmission: Edwin M. Armstrong.
		Inventor of remote-controlled, jam-proof radio communications system for U.S. military: Charles Goodyear.
	members.fortunecity.com /jonhays/freeload.htm (837 words)

	Charles Babbage
		As the inventor of the first universal digital computer, he can indeed be considered a profound thinker.
		Prime Minister Robert Peel recommended that Babbage's machine be set to calculate the time at which it would be of use.
		From this came William Thomson's discovery of the Second Law of Thermodynamics in 1852, and Rudolf Clausius' discovery of entropy in 1865.
	ei.cs.vt.edu /~history/Babbage.html (3782 words)

	Jones Encyclopedia of Media & Technology Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Thomas Alva Edison was an American entrepreneur and one of history's most prolific inventors, known primarily for inventing the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, the first good voice transmitter for Bell's telephone, and for producing the first talking motion pictures.
		Robert Johnson is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of the cable television network Black Entertainment Television (BET) and, as a result of that successful venture, the richest African American in the United States.
		Metcalfe, Robert M. Robert M. Metcalfe, Ph.D. was the inventor of Ethernet and founder (in 1979) of 3Com Corporation.
	www.jonesencyclo.com /biographies.cfm (11396 words)

	Articles - Thomson (disambiguation) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Thomson SA, formerly known as Thomson Multimedia, a French electronics manufacturer and media services provider.
		Thomson Holidays, a UK based travel company founded by the Thomson Corporation in 1965.
		George Paget Thomson (1892-1975), English physicist who worked on the wave nature of the electron.
	www.ezorange.com /articles/Thomson (201 words)

	Transactions of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia For Promoting Useful Knowledge Volume 89
		The cosmic inventor: Reginald Aubrey Fessenden (1866-1932) / Frederick Seitz.
		He was also the inventor of a very light working air-cooled engine in which a sleeve attached to the piston is mounted outside rather than inside the cylinder in order to seal the combustion chamber.
		The master inventor in United States was E. Armstrong, who, as mentioned in the previous section, had developed means to control the oscillations of circuits containing triode vacuum tubes in the feed-back mode.
	www.radiocom.net /Seitz (17618 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Thompson-garcia to Thomson
		Thomson, Frederick W. — of Onondaga County, N.Y. Democrat.
		Thomson, John Renshaw (1800-1862) — of New Jersey.
		Thomson, Thaddeus Austin (1853-1927) — also known as Thaddeus A. Thomson — of Texas.
	politicalgraveyard.com /bio/thomson.html (782 words)

	Stonehaven Town Map - R P A Smith Street Plans
		A favourite subject for Scottish pictorial calendars and postcards, Stonehaven Harbour was established by the Earl Marischal and improved in 1826 by Robert Stevenson, the engineer grandfather of Robert Louis Stevenson.
		An excellent early example of town planning, the development of the area (now with a good range of shops) was promoted by the local landowner, Robert Barclay of Ury who is, with other family members, commemorated in the street names.
		A plaque in the Market Square records the birthplace of Robert Thomson, the inventor of the pneumatic tyre.
	www.rpasmith.co.uk /stonehaven.htm (1366 words)

	Overview of Robert William Thomson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Born into a family of merchants in Stonehaven, Thomson served engineering apprenticeships in Aberdeen and Dundee, before working for a time in Glasgow and settling in Edinburgh.
		He patented his invention in 1845, and it was successfully tested in London, however it was abandoned because it was thought too expensive for common use.
		Thomson's invention is commemorated by a plaque in his native Stonehaven.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/people/famousfirst307.html (198 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Glasgow
		The university was also made famous by the Foulis printing press and the mechanical experiments of James Watt, inventor of the steam-engine.
		But perhaps the most world-wide celebrity that Glasgow University can boast is the late William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, who taught and carried on his researches here for fifty years till his retirement in 1899.
		Sir Richard Jebb and Dr. Gilbert Murray were successively professors of Greek from 1874 to 1899; the Cairds, John and Edward, were great names in Scotland; and the medical faculty has been and is still graced by men of European reputation, such as Lord Lister and Sir W. MacEwen.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06577b.htm (1634 words)

	Inventor Thomas Alva Edison Biography
		Edison's crowning achievement in telegraphy was his invention of machines that made possible simultaneous transmission of several messages on one line and thus greatly increased the usefulness of existing telegraph lines.
		Important in the development of the telephone, which had recently been invented by the American physicist and inventor Alexander Graham Bell, was Edison's invention of the carbon telephone transmitter.
		An account of the life of inventor Thomas Edison, focusing on his intellectual contributions, his absorption in his work, the mythology that developed and was cultivated about him, and the cultural context in which he produced his inventions.
	www.ideafinder.com /history/inventors/edison.htm (1927 words)

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