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Sir Richard Trevithick Tangye[needs IPA] (24 November 1833 – 14 October 1906) was a British manufacturer of engines and other heavy equipment.
16 de may. de 2019 · When Richard Tangye died, he left an estate of £226, 319. He was certainly an immensely rich man, the owner of big houses in Kingston-upon-Thames and in Newquay. Yet it had all begun in humble circumstances, in a cottage in Illogan, two miles from Redruth, where Tangye was born on 24 November 1833.
ON November 24 the centenary occurs of the birth of Sir Richard Tangye, the most prominent of the five brothers who founded the well-known engineering firm of Messrs. Tangye, Ltd., of the...
Many reached the front rank in engineering; of these probably the most famous and original was Richard Trevithick (1771-1833), whose father was captain of the great Dolcoath Mine. Trevithick was born, like the Tangye brothers later, in Illogan.
Richard Tangye’s insistence upon the importance of scientific and technical education on the same occasion — ‘absolutely essential if this country is to hold its own’ — has a strangely familiar ring today.
Tangye Jacks. In 1856 Richard Tangye required some special pumps for hydraulic jacks and teamed up with his brother Joseph an excellent machinist with a fine homemade lathe, they rented a small room in Birmingham and laid the earliest foundations of the Tangye tradition.
5 de jun. de 2015 · The life-story of Richard Tangye was held up in Victorian Britain as an outstanding example of what a man could achieve by determination, single-mindedness and sheer hard work. Born in a cottage in a small village near Redruth, he died in a mansion near the Thames.
