Charles Brown (engineer)

Charles Brown (30 June 1827–6 October 1905) was a British engineer. He was born at Uxbridge on 30 June 1827 and was apprenticed to Maudslay, Sons and Field.

Career

In 1851 he moved to Switzerland to join the Sulzer company. In 1871 he left Sulzer to set up Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works (SLM). While at SLM he invented the Brown valve gear, a radial valve gear for steam engines.[1] He became involved in the development of electric locomotives in the 1880s. In 1885 he became manager of Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon and in 1890 he set up Charles Brown and Company at 91 Rione Amedeo, Naples, Italy.[2]

Family

He married a Swiss woman and they had a son Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown who founded Brown, Boveri & Cie.

Death

Charles Brown died on 6 October 1905 at Basle.

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gollark: On x86 platforms, you can have a live USB stick and boot that on basically any recent x86 PC and it will probably work fine apart from hardware accelerated graphics, some networking hardware, and whatnot.
gollark: I generally like simpler things. Also, less attack surface.
gollark: I mean, admittedly being CISC is better in some ways and RISC is worse in others, but I kind of prefer RISC.
gollark: ARM positives:- originally more riscy- more implementations- better power efficiencyARM negatives:- literally has a JS floating point conversion instruction???- horrendous software compatibility; most Android devices run ancient kernels with weird device-specific patches and can never be updated, the bootloaders are weird and inconsistent- now very CISC anyway

References
  1. http://www.irsociety.co.uk/Archives/60/Letters_60.htm
  2. http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Charles_Brown_%281827-1896%29



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