William George Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong (1810 to 1900), was an English engineer, industrialist and inventor who founded the Armstrong Whitworth manufacturing concern on Tyneside. Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, he trained and worked as a solicitor while experimenting with engineering in his spare time, developing the Armstrong hydroelectric machine between 1840 and 1842. After seeing a waterwheel driving a marble quarry he designed water powered engines and a hydraulic crane for the Newcastle quayside, gave up the law and in 1847 opened a works at Elswick. He developed the hydraulic accumulator and, in the 1850s, a lighter breech-loading rifled field gun with a wrought iron barrel wrapped around a steel lining, which led to his being regarded as the inventor of modern artillery. He gave his gun patents to the government, was knighted in 1859 and was raised to the peerage in 1887. With the architect Richard Norman Shaw he built Cragside in Northumberland, the first house in the world lit by hydroelectricity.
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William George Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong (26 November 1810 – 27 December 1900) was an English engineer and industrialist who founded the Armstrong Whitworth manufacturing concern on Tyneside.
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William George Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong (26 November 1810-27 December 1900) was an English engineer and industrialist who founded the Armstrong Whitworth manufacturing concern on Tyneside.
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William George Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong (26 November 1810-27 December 1900) was an English engineer and industrialist who founded the Armstrong Whitworth manufacturing concern on Tyneside.
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He is regarded as the inventor of modern artillery.
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He is regarded as the inventor of modern artillery.
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William George Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong (26 November 1810-27 December 1900) was an English engineer and industrialist who founded the Armstrong Whitworth manufacturing concern on Tyneside.
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William George Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong (26 November 1810-27 December 1900) was an English engineer and industrialist who founded the Armstrong Whitworth manufacturing concern on Tyneside.
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He is regarded as the inventor of modern artillery.
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he proposed to Newcastle Corporation that the excess water pressure in the lower part of town could be used to power a quayside crane specially adapted by himself.
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