Centenaries, '61

Abstract

Samuel Clegg was born in Manchester in 1781 and died in 1861. His inventions are concerned with gas lighting and an extraordinary railway. He was educated partly by Dalton of the Atomic Theory and worked at Boulton and Watt's Soho factory, Birmingham. Gas lighting was invented by Murdoch (of the same company) and Clegg was concerned with him in installing it in cotton mills. Later Clegg worked independently and became the chief engineer of a London gas company. He invented the lime purifier (to remove sulphur compounds from gas) and two kinds of gas meter.

Citation

Cummings, A. (1961), "Centenaries, '61", Education + Training, Vol. 3 No. 11, pp. 22-23. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb015052