William Edward Newton
William Edward Newton (1818-1879)
1856 Patent for apparatus for riming and tapping gas fittings; William Edward Newton, of Patent Office, Chancery Lane[1]
1862 William Edward Newton, Midland Copper Works, Guild Street, Burton-on-Trent.[2]
1879 April 1st. Died.[3]
1880 Obituary [4]
WILLIAM EDWARD NEWTON was born in London on 23rd January 1818.
He was extensively engaged in business as a surveyor and civil engineer. He also acted as a patent agent for a considerable part of his life, and took great interest in the working of the patent laws.
He became a Member of the Institution in 1862; and in 1873 read a paper on Tilghman's sand-blast process (Proceedings 1873, page 260).
His death took place on 1st April 1879, at the age of sixty-one.
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Sources of Information
- ↑ London Gazette 1856
- ↑ 1862 Institution of Mechanical Engineers
- ↑ 1862 Institution of Mechanical Engineers
- ↑ 1880 Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Obituaries Minutes of the Proceedings