List of British engineers and their patents

List of British engineers and their patents. This is a historical list of British engineers, and patentees, who do not yet have biographical articles.
A
* Anderson, Harry Percival Harvey, with John McCullum and Steam Heat Conservation Company Ltd. See Anderson condensing system
** Patent GB336599
B
* Bell, Arthur Morton has published some books on locomotives.
** Three patents, two obtained jointly with James Holden.
C
* Carlton or Carleton, Thomas William. Partner with John Charles Taite, trading as Taite and Carlton.
** Patent CA35069
* Cowan, William, was born in Edinburgh in 1823 and died in Aberdeen on 10 March 1898. He was Locomotive Superintendent of the Great North of Scotland Railway from 1857 to 1883.
** No known patents
* Cumming, Christopher. Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Highland Railway from 1915 to 1922.
** Patent GB190404179
D
* Davis, Frederic Jocelyn.
** Three patents, one obtained jointly with James Holden.
M
* McCullum, John, with H.P.H. Anderson and Steam Heat Conservation Company Ltd. See Anderson condensing system. The surname is spelt McCullum in the patent but some sources give McCallum.
** Patent GB336599
** One patent, obtained jointly with Walter Reuben Preston.
* Preston, Reuben Thomas
** Twenty-four patents, two obtained jointly with James Holden.
R
* Riekie, John
** Fifteen patents, one with John F. McIntosh.
* Russell, Frederick Vernon (1870-1942). Chief draughtsman at the Stratford Works of the Great Eastern Railway.
** Six patents, four obtained jointly with James Holden.
* Ruthven, Archibald St Clair. This may be Archibald St Clair Ruthven (1842-1925) or his son of the same name (1875-1951).
** Two patents, with John F. McIntosh.
* Ruthven, John Folds (born 1820), was Locomotive Superintendent of the Great North of Scotland Railway from 1855 to 1857.
** No known patents
* Ruthven, Morris West (born 1812), son of John Ruthven (born 1783) and Mary West.
** Scotch patent dated 28 March 1839 "for improvements in boilers for generating steam..."
T
* Taite, John Charles. Partner with Thomas William Carlton (or Carleton), trading as Taite and Carlton, engineers and commission agents.
* Tiddeman, Edmund Spenser, was related (by marriage) to The Spooners of Porthmadog
** Six patents, two obtained jointly with James Holden.
W
* Wigram, Reginald
** Two patents, obtained jointly with James Thompson Marshall.

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