Joseph John Ruston
Born 3 March 1809 in Poplar, died 2 March 1895 in Vienna.
Brother of John Joseph Ruston.
Joseph John Ruston was the son of the Poplar shipyard owner John Joseph Ruston. He had three brothers.
He completed his training as a ship's carpenter and mechanical engineer. In 1832, Boulton and Watt sent him to Austria, where he took a senior position in John Andrews' shipyard in Vienna-New-Leopoldau. In 1837 Andrews' shipyard had to give way to the construction of the northern railway embankment. Ruston remained in Austria and directed the construction of the steamer Sophie on the Traunsee. In 1840 he designed the ship Bohemia.
1848 Married Isabella Elisabeth Andrews (daughter of Peter and Francis Linklater), a widow, in Dresden[1]
From 1850 he was involved with his brother John at the engineering company Ruston and Evans in Karolinenthal near Prague, which from 1854 was named Ruston and Co. Until 1869 he was involved in the management of this company, later as Prager Maschinenbau AG, formerly Ruston & Co.
From 1854 to 1859 together with his brother John Ruston he ran a shipyard near Klosterneuburg. In 1857, they also took over the shipyard of Breitfeld and Evans near Floridsdorf, which John Ruston led until his death in 1873.
In 1848 Joseph John Ruston married Isabella Elisabeth Andrews, b. Hepbourn, the widow of John Andrews, who had died in 1847. He acquired the rights for the Elbe and the Traunsee shipping. In 1851 he gave up the concession for shipping on the Elbe, and, instead, he expanded the traffic on the Traunsee together with his brother and partner John Joseph Ruston. His nephew became his partner in 1894 and continued the business after Joseph John Ruston's death.
The above information is translated and condensed from the German Wikipedia entry.
- Translation of entry from Austrian Bibliographical Lexicon [1]
Joseph John Ruston I, ship and mechanical engineer and industrialist.
1809 Born in London-Poplar, March 3, eldest son of John Joseph Ruston I, the owner of a shipyard in Poplar.
He learned the craft of a ship carpenter and was also trained as a mechanical engineer.
1832 he became a master shipbuilder in the shipyard of Andrews, a co-founder of the First Donau-Dampfschiffahrts-Ges., in Vienna-Neu-Leopoldau.
Between 1833 and 1836 the three steamships “Pannonia”, “Zrinyi” and the “Nador” planned by Ruston were built.
1839 he completed the steamship “Sophie” for Lake Traunsee based on his own plans for Andrews.
1840 Ruston designed the “Bohemia” for Andrews, who in 1839 had been granted a conditional privilege to travel by steam on the Vltava and Elbe from Prague to the Saxon border.
1847 After Andrews' death (1847), Ruston married his widow and, after her death (1848), came into possession of the entire Elbe shipping, which he gave up in 1851 after the Dresden-Prague railway line was completed.
1854 Ruston took part in the efforts to start steam shipping on the Inn and ran shipbuilding on the Danube near Klosterneuburg until 1859
From 1857 to 1873 he ran the shipyard in Schwarzlackenau, which was taken over by Breitfeld & Evans.
From 1862 he owned the Traunseeschiffahrt (his brother John Joseph Ruston II, 1820–1873, was a silent partner). His nephew Joseph John Ruston II (1857–1934) continued to run the business from 1895.
1850 the Ruston brothers took part in a mechanical engineering company near Prague (Ruston & Evans, from 1854 Ruston & Co.), which achieved excellent results, especially in the construction of steam power plants, facilities for sugar factories, mills and corn-spirit distilleries, mines and smelting works, porcelain factories and sawmills and, from 1863, in bridge construction. Numerous new designs were developed and their own inventions were used, especially for sugar factories. The first steam locomotive was produced in 1858 and the first water turbine was delivered in 1863. The company was also involved in the construction of marine engines and ships from 1852 and in the construction of steam excavators from 1853. However, shipbuilding could not be carried out continuously due to a lack of sufficient demand.
1869 Prager Maschinenbau-AG (formerly Ruston & Co.) took over the business.
Ruston was a technical and commercial pioneer of industrial transport development in Austria
1895 Died in Vienna, March 2.
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Marriage record
- [2] Joseph John Ruston by Andreas Resch