Jonathan Hornblower (5 July 1753 – 23 February 1815) was an English pioneer of steam power. The son of Jonathan Hornblower the Elder and the brother of...
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Horatio Hornblower is a fictional officer in the British Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, the protagonist of a series of novels and stories by C...
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Hornblower is a series of British historical fiction war television films based on three of C. S. Forester's ten novels about the fictional character Horatio...
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Jonathan Hornblower (30 October 1717 – 7 December 1780) was an English pioneer of steam power, the son of Joseph Hornblower and brother of Josiah Hornblower...
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pioneer Joseph Hornblower. As a young man, he studied mechanics and mathematics. In 1745, he started working for his elder brother Jonathan as an engineering...
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Jabez Carter Hornblower (21 May 1744 – 14 July 1814) was an English pioneer of steam power, and the son of Jonathan Hornblower. Hornblower was born in...
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engineers including James Watt, who added a separate condenser; Jonathan Hornblower and Arthur Woolf, who compounded the cylinders; and William McNaught...
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Rose, near Truro. He settled in Salem, Cornwall in 1748. Jonathan Hornblower and Josiah Hornblower were his sons by his first wife Rebecca Haywood whom he...
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Double beat valve (section Hornblower's valve)
valve gear such as Caprotti is used. It was invented around 1800 by Jonathan Hornblower. His valve is in the form of a hollow cylinder provided with two...
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engineer and inventor Jonathan Hornblower (1717) (1717-1780), steam pioneer, father of Jonathan and Jabez Hornblower Lewis Hornblower (1823-1879), Liverpool...
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