| 词条 | Hamilton Owen Rendel |
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Hamilton Owen Rendel (1843–17 September 1902) designed and installed the original raising mechanism of the Tower Bridge while working for Sir W. G. Armstrong Mitchell & Company of Newcastle upon Tyne. FamilyRendel was a member of a notable family of engineers. His father, James Meadows Rendel, was a civil engineer who married his mother, Catherine Jane Harris. His siblings were:
A cousin, James Murray Dobson, became resident engineer of the Buenos Aires harbour works in the 1880s and 1890s. CareerRendel took his degree at Cambridge university, and immediately after leaving started at the Armstrong, Mitchell and Company at Elswick, Tyne and Wear, where he later became head of the engineerings department. He retired in early 1902 due to ill health, and died later the same year on 17 September 1902 as he was visiting his sister Mrs. Wedgwood at her residence The Lea, in Barlaston, Staffordshire.[1] He was buried at Kensal Green Cemetery in London. Tower Bridge hydraulicsThe mechanism was powered by pressurised water stored in several hydraulic accumulators.[2][3] Water, at a pressure of {{convert|750|psi|MPa|abbr=on}}, was pumped into the accumulators by two {{convert|360|hp|kW|abbr=on}} stationary steam engines, each driving a force pump from its piston tail rod. The accumulators each comprise a {{convert|20|in|cm}} ram on which sits a very heavy weight to maintain the desired pressure. References1. ^{{Cite newspaper The Times |articlename=Obituary - Hamilton Owen Rendel |day_of_week=Friday |date=19 September 1902 |page_number=8 |issue=36877| }} {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Rendel, Hamilton Owen}}{{UK-engineer-stub}}2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.towerbridge.org.uk/TBE/EN/BridgeHistory/ |title=Bridge History |publisher=Towerbridge.org.uk |date=2003-02-01 |accessdate=2012-06-13}} 3. ^{{cite book | last = Lane | first = MR | title = The Rendel Connection: a dynasty of engineers | year = 1989 | publisher = Quiller press, London | isbn = 1-870948-01-7 | ref = harv}} 4 : 1843 births|1902 deaths|British engineers|Burials at Kensal Green Cemetery |
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