AN EMINENT ENGINEER.
John Scott Russell, the eminent, engineer naval architect, and shipbuilder, died recently at the age of 74. He was, in 1832, appointed to the Professorship of Natural Philosophy in the Edinburg University, but afterwards went into shipbuilding line at Greencok, and in 1844 removed to London. Amongst other steamers with which his name is connected is the Great Eastern which is termed the triumph of his genius. His two latest works have been the initiation of railway transport across the sea, and the construction of the largest valuated dome in the world—the Great Dome at Vienna. His plan of transporting railways across sea was carried out at the Baltic Sea, where the train arriving on the Swiss side is taken by its own locomotive on board a steamer specially constructed, and is drawn off on the German side with its contents undisturbed. Mr Scott Russell was also the author of several scientific treatises.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1096, 6 July 1882, Page 4
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156AN EMINENT ENGINEER. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1096, 6 July 1882, Page 4
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