CHAPTER XI.

JOSEPH BRAMAH.

The inventive faculty

Joseph Bramah's early life

His amateur work

Apprenticed to a carpenter

Starts as cabinet-maker in London

Takes out a patent for his water-closet

Makes pumps and ironwork

Invention of his lock

Invents tools required in lock-making

Invents his hydrostatic machine

His hydraulic press

The leathern collar invented by Henry Maudslay

Bramah's other inventions

His fire-engine

His beer-pump

Improvements in the steam-engine

His improvements in machine-tools

His number-printing machine

His pen-cutter

His hydraulic machinery

Practises as civil engineer

Altercation with William Huntington, "S.S."

Bramah's character and death

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