My hobby is making online quizzes and in my research I came across Joseph Bramah - I'm surprised I'd never come across him before - he deserves to be known alongside Newcomen, Smeaton, Watt, Stephenson, Bessimer, Bazalgette, Arkwright, & Brunel. Thank you so much for this fascinating and well-illustrated talk!
I have a lovely cast-iron strong box cast in Leeds with a Bramah patent lock. I knew it was old but didn’t realise it was probably 200 years young! Thanks for sharing. It still functions correctly with its original key, however, it is not of the tubular type, rather a warded type.
Tim Brown would love to see a photo of the lock and key as he has doubts it might be a Bramah as it is warded. Are there any other markings on the lock?
Today, I watched a single workman drive a large truck into my driveway and use a hydraulic system to place a 16ft long by 8 by 8 feet metal storage box precisely where I wanted it. My wife, knowing my love of all things technological asked me how that worked and I had to confess I knew only the basics: it was an hydraulic system, a closed loop with fluid inside which pressurized the fluid in different elements of the system in order to extend or retract pistons using petrol powered pump. This prompted me to consult on the history of hydraulic systems and to learn of Joseph Bramah, an English engineer who patented the first hydraulic press in 1795.
My hobby is making online quizzes and in my research I came across Joseph Bramah - I'm surprised I'd never come across him before - he deserves to be known alongside Newcomen, Smeaton, Watt, Stephenson, Bessimer, Bazalgette, Arkwright, & Brunel. Thank you so much for this fascinating and well-illustrated talk!
I have a lovely cast-iron strong box cast in Leeds with a Bramah patent lock. I knew it was old but didn’t realise it was probably 200 years young! Thanks for sharing. It still functions correctly with its original key, however, it is not of the tubular type, rather a warded type.
Tim Brown would love to see a photo of the lock and key as he has doubts it might be a Bramah as it is warded. Are there any other markings on the lock?
Today, I watched a single workman drive a large truck into my driveway and use a hydraulic system to place a 16ft long by 8 by 8 feet metal storage box precisely where I wanted it. My wife, knowing my love of all things technological asked me how that worked and I had to confess I knew only the basics: it was an hydraulic system, a closed loop with fluid inside which pressurized the fluid in different elements of the system in order to extend or retract pistons using petrol powered pump. This prompted me to consult on the history of hydraulic systems and to learn of Joseph Bramah, an English engineer who patented the first hydraulic press in 1795.