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	Stonehaven, The History
		Robert was the eleventh of twelve children of a local woollen mill owner.
		Thomson was only 23 years old when he patented the pneumatic tyre he was granted a patent in France in1846 and in the USA in 1847.
		Robert Thomson invented the pneumatic tyre in December 1845 and his memory is kept fresh annually by a vintage car rally held in June on the Market Square in the town centre directly opposite the site of the house where he was born.
	www.mearns.org.uk /stonehaven/thomson.htm (937 words)

	Encyclopedia: Robert William Thomson (journalist)
		Robert William Thomson is an Australian journalist and editor of The Times newspaper.
		Thomson was a journalist for The Herald-Sun in Melbourne from 1979 until 1983, when he became a senior feature writer for the Sydney Morning Herald.
		During the transitional period, Thomson had to make several staff redundant, including senior leader writers, owing to the need to find more money to fund the compact version.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Robert-William-Thomson-(journalist) (312 words)

	William Ferguson Thomson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		HENRY F.2 THOMSON (WILLIAM FERGUSON1) was born 1859, and died 1933 in Moruya NSW..
		DONALD2 THOMSON (WILLIAM FERGUSON1) was born 1 October 1863 in Naas NSW., and died 16 June 1929 in Drouin or Warragul Vic..
		CLAUDE JOHN2 THOMSON (WILLIAM FERGUSON1) was born 1867 in Queanbeyan NSW., and died 3 March 1929 in Sydney NSW.
	www.cooma.nsw.gov.au /monaropioneers/thomson-wf.htm (289 words)

	Dumb.Com - Dumb Facts
		Robert Goddard a scientist and holder of 214 patents fired the first rocket using liquid propellant in 1926.
		Robert Peary, who left pieces of the flag scattered at the North Pole was honored for doing this.
		Robert Todd Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln's oldest son) was in Washington DC during his father's assassination as well as during President Garfield's assassination, and he was in Buffalo NY when President McKinley was assassinated.
	www.dumb.com /17.htm (1197 words)

	Famous People
		Robert William Thomson, was the son of a local Wool Mill Owner.
		Robert William Thomson and his family latter on lived in Edinburgh where he became a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
		How orderly and pleasing Robert Barclay's plans were, can readily be appreciated by reference to a plan of the burgh,which consists of a pattern of several wide, regular, straight streets as a rule running parallel to or intersecting one another at right angles in the style of an American town.
	www.portalnetwork.net /stonehavenguide/listings/47.html (2145 words)

	Sam Sloan's Big Combined Family Trees - pafg171 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Robert THOMSON was born before 1776 in Scotland.
		William THOMSON was born before 1776 in Scotland.
		William ABERNETHY was born in Dec 1832 in Kirkcolm, Wigtownshire, Scotland.
	www.anusha.com /pafg171.htm (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)

	Nineteenth Century Inventions 1800
		William Austin Burt patents a typographer, a predecessor to the typewriter.
		Robert William Thomson patents the first vulcanised rubber pneumatic tire.
		William Morton, a Massachusetts dentist, is the first to use anesthesia for tooth extraction.
	www.timetravelerproductions.com /2004nineteenth_century_inventions_18.htm (578 words)

	William Wright, 1707-1776, of Augusta Co
		William Robinson was the original grantee of land north of the 660 acres.
		William Wright acquired the 413 acres from William Beverley in 1740 prior to Augusta County being organized.
		William, dec'd was the brother of John M., dec'd, and of Sarah who owns the remaining undivided one-half interest in the 280 acres.
	www.hal-pc.org /~wmewrght/wmwright.html (4823 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)

	Nat' Academies Press, Degrees Kelvin: A Tale of Genius, Invention, and Tragedy (2004)
		William bought stock apparently on Robert’s advice, but was soon writing to his father asking for help on unloading it.
		It is a brief letter of introduction to William—Sir William Thomson by then—on behalf of a Melbourne colleague of Robert’s who was coming to England for some months.
		In one of his undergraduate publications, Thomson had found a mathematical equivalence between the flow lines of heat, described by Fourier’s theory, and the geometry of electric lines of force, as proposed by Faraday.
	www.nap.edu /openbook.php?record_id=10736&page=79 (586 words)

	Page 2 - Scientists & Inventors List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		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.
		The same year he developed commercially practical pneumatic tyres, first patented by Robert William Thomson in 1845 for bicycles and cars.
		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)

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		In George Haydock's case, one of his relatives, William Hesketh, obtained possession of the martyr's head which was preserved by the family in the chapel at Cottam until t he estate, many years later, passed into other hands.
		William Weston, escaped from prison three times; Father John Gerard managed to convert his gaoler and escape from the Tower of London, which was presumed escape-proof.
	www.geocities.com /brett_usher/haydock.rtf (9654 words)

	Stepney Folk:Robert Thomson of Hertfordshire died 1676
		Maurice Thomson was a wealthy Puritan merchant of good family and a supporter of Cromwell's Government.
		Maurice Thomson was one of the founders of the Old Poplar Chapel in 1654.
		My grandchildren William and Samuel Oldfield at 21; my brothers George, Sir William and Robert Thomson to be trustees for daughter Martha Corsellis.
	website.lineone.net /~fight/Stepney/thomson.htm (582 words)

	ScotlandOnline.com - scottish leisure directory - maps of scotland - eating drinking guides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		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.
		Dunlop's patent however was rendered invalid as Thomson's patent preceded it.
	www.scotlandonline.com /directory/heritage_gscots_detail.cfm?id=153 (616 words)

	Library & Museum Collections
		William R. Smith, 32°, former Director of the National Botanical Gardens in Washington, D.C., assembled one of the most complete collections of published works by and about Scottish poet Robert Burns.
		William Thomson of the Public Library of Edinburgh, Scotland, and recently converted to the Library’s computer catalog system by Joan Sansbury, Librarian/Curator of the Supreme Council.
		Smith’s estate, decided that because Robert Burns had been an ardent Freemason, it would be appropriate to place the Burns collection in the library of the Supreme Council, with the condition that it be housed in a special room available to the public and community of scholars.
	www.srmason-sj.org /library/collections/burns.htm (175 words)

	Jennings, Thompson Abstracts
		William Binon X and Susanna Binion X. wife Robert Sharp, William Thomson, Hugh Lewis Venable.
		481 23 Sept. 1789 Robert Thomson and Elizabeth his wife of Louisa County to John Thomson of Orange County for 60 pounds for 100 acres on branches of Gold Miner Creek adjoining William Quarles, Robert Wasley, James Melton.
		Robert Thomson was security for the administration of Robert Bibb on the estate of Robert T. Bibb.
	trevilians.com /jla1.htm (1971 words)

	scottish heritage - genealogy scotland - clans - scottish associations - historical attractions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Born in Stonehaven in 1822, the 11th of 12 children of a local woollen mill owner.
		The further development of these wheels was slowed by the inability to manufacture the necessary strong thin rubber for the inner tubes, and Thomson turned towards developing solid rubber tyres.
		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)

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		His son-in-law, Robert Owen, who became the eutopian pioneer of the co-operative movement, partnered him in running his most famous mill at New Lanark, the new-town experiment in social engineering which Dale created in 1785.
		Son of Robert Owen (founder of the co-operative movement) and grandson of David Dale.
		Steell was Queen Victoria's Sculptor in Scotland, and created many of the public statues in Edinburgh, including the equestrain statue of the Duke of Wellington outside Register House, which was dubbed 'the Iron Duke in bronze by Steell' and the statue of Sir Walter Scott at the centre of the Scott Monument.
	www.tunk.com /scotland/details.htm (6915 words)

	Half-soles, Kettles, and Cures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		As early as 1845, however, there was a brougham owned by an engineer of Middlesex, which had "noiseless tires" and created quite a sensation.
		In the later part of the nineteenth century, there was a tremendous interest in rubber, rubber compounds, and inventions and a search for numerous applications.
		Thomson's patent, however, even though it was English, was spelled with an i.
	www.p2pays.org /ref/11/10504/html/biblio/htmls/reh1.htm (2056 words)

	John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish Inventor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Later on however, he would become instrumental in creating the first usable pneumatic tire, a device which is essential in the modern automobile.
		Dunlop was not the first person to invent the device (it was first conceived by another Scotsman, Robert William Thomson, in the 1840's), but Dunlop was the first to develop and patent a practical version of it.
		In the long tradition of major discoveries and inventions coming about through coincidence, accident or necessity, the beginning of Dunlop's legacy occurred when, in 1888, he was watching his son ride his tricycle.
	www.visitaberfeldy.50megs.com /john-dunlop.htm (229 words)

	Other people that share my name or my birthday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Robert William Thomson - inventor of the pneumatic tyre and a self filling fountain pen
		Robert William Ainsworth - MP for Coventry NE Robert William Hoskins - famous film actor, great in Who Framed Roger Rabbit
		Robert William Askin - premier of New South Wales, changed his name to be like me (or not)
	www.bobpalin.com /other_people_that_share_my_name_.htm (95 words)

	John Boyd Dunlop
		Dreghorn was a mining village situated in North Ayrshire, it lies just a few miles east of the royal burgh of Irvine.
		Contrary to popular belief, Dunlop did not invent the pneumatic tyre, it was actually invented by Robert William Thomson, another Scot.
		The pneumatic tyre idea had been experimented with and patented by Thompson some 40 years before (though Dunlop was unaware of this).
	www.threetowners.com /scots/john_boyd_dunlop.htm (198 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		William Austin Burt patents a typographer, a predecessor to the HYPERLINK "http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bltypewriter.htm" typewriter.
		Robert William Thomson patents the first vulcanised rubber HYPERLINK "http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blpneumatic.htm" pneumatic tire.
		William Coolidge invents HYPERLINK "http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blxray.htm" \l "coolidge" ductile tungsten used in lightbulbs.
	www.hoosicvalleytech.com /7thGradePages/inventiontimeline.doc (4573 words)

	Thomson Coat of Arms, Family Crest
		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 (1031 words)

	Important Historical Inventions and Inventors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In 1792 William Murdoch succeeded in lighting his house and office in Cross Street, Redruth, by piped coal gas.
		He patented his invention in 1845, which 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.
	ing.bc.inter.edu /rcintron/Misitioweb/srs136.htm (702 words)

	Mindless Crap Science, Technology & Inventions Trivia
		Detroit policeman William L. Potts is credited with inventing the modern street traffic light in 1920.
		He worked out an electric light system that allowed him to control three street intersections from one tower He picked the red, yellow and green because railroads used them.
		Johnson and Johnson created the Band-Aid in 1899 because Robert Wood Johnson attended a lecture concerning the prevention of infection in wounds during surgical operations.
	www.mindlesscrap.com /trivia/scitech.htm (1893 words)

	Amazon.com: A Guide for the Young Economist: Books: William Thomson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Thomson covers the basics of clear exposition, including such nuts-and-bolts topics as titling papers, writing abstracts, presenting research results, and holding an audience's attention.
		Thomson's style is warm, clear and engaging, and his advice sound.
		William gives advice as how to better your communication skills and how to talk to large audiences.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0262700794?v=glance (775 words)

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