Richard Dudgeon

Richard Dudgeon (1819, Tain – 9 April 1895, New York City)[1] was a mechanic, noted for his inventions of the hydraulic jack and steam carriage. Born in Scotland,[2] he emigrated as a boy with his family to the United States, where he became a mechanic in New York. He founded an engineering machine shop on Broome Street and this prospered, so that he was able to live well nearby and have a country estate in Harlem.[3] The business still exists as Richard Dudgeon, Inc.[4]

Dudgeon Steam Automobile (1857)

References
  1. Willi H. Hager, Dudgeon, in Hydraulicians in the USA 1800-2000: A biographical dictionary of leaders in hydraulic engineering and fluid mechanics, CRC Press, 2015. Page 1989
  2. Walter A. Woron (1985), Motor Trend, 37, Richard Dudgeon was born near Edinburgh in 1819, the youngest son of a father with emigration fever {{citation}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. Arthur Pound (1975), The golden earth: the story of Manhattan's landed wealth, Ayer Publishing, p. 207, ISBN 978-0-405-06931-4
  4. Richard Dudgeon, Inc., December 2009
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