Walter Crooke (1840-1924)
Walter Crooke (1840-1924)
c.1890 Mr. Walter Crook (sic), of Millom, designed a hot air heating system for use in the Gatebeck gunpower works for W. H. Wakefield and Co[1]
1924 Obituary [2]
WALTER CROOKE died on June 30, 1924, at his residence, Fern Villa, Oswald Road, Scunthorpe, at the age of eighty-four years.
He was for many years engineer of the Millom and Askham Ironworks, and while there patented the Massicks and Crooke hot-blast stove, which he described in a paper read before the Institute in 1890.
He took up his residence at Frodingham in 1909, and with the assistance of his second son; Mr. Arthur Crooke, general manager of the Frodingham and Appleby Works, he introduced the Crooke revolving top for blast-furnaces.
He was elected a member of the Iron and Steel Institute in 1883.
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- ↑ The Engineer 1893/09/22
- ↑ 1924 Iron and Steel Institute: Obituaries