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Samuel Owen (mathematician)
Samuel Owen may refer to: * Samuel Owen (engineer) (1774–1854), British-Swedish engineer * Samuel Owen (artist) (1769–1857), English marine painter * Satō (佐藤 ''Satou'', born Samuel T. Owen), fictional Japanese terrorist {{hndis, Owen, Samuel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Owen (engineer)
Samuel Owen (12 May 1774 – 15 February 1854), was a British-Swedish engineer, inventor and industrialist. He founded a workshop in Stockholm in 1809 that produced a large number of mechanical components, and since then has been regarded as "the founder of the Swedish mechanical industry". Early and personal life Owen was born in Norton in Hales, Shropshire, England on 12 May 1774. He was married three times; first in England to Ann Spen Toft, then in Sweden in 1817 to Beata Carolina Svedell. Svedell died in 1822. Soon after, Owen married Johanna Magdalena Elisabeth (1797–1880), also called "Lisette" (likely a children's name for Elizabeth). She was born "Strindberg" and her nephew was the playwright August Strindberg. In total Owen had 17 children with his three wives. Career Owen's first visit to Sweden was in 1804 to assist with the installation of four steam engines that had been sold by the company Fenton, Murray & Wood’s in Leeds, England that Owen was employe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Owen (artist)
Samuel Owen (1769? – 8 December 1857) was an English Marine painting, marine painter and illustrator. Life and works Owen was born about 1769. Nothing is recorded of him before 1791, when he exhibited "A Sea View" at the Royal Academy. This was followed in 1797, after the victory of Battle of Cape St Vincent (1797), Cape St. Vincent, by "A View of the British and Spanish Fleets", and, in 1799, by three drawings of the engagement between (under Captain Bligh) and ''Vryheid'' (Admiral De Winter) in the Battle of Camperdown on 11 October 1797. These, with three other drawings exhibited in 1802 and 1807, complete the number of his exhibits at the Royal Academy. In 1808 he joined the "Associated Artists in Water-Colours", and sent eleven drawings of shipping and marine subjects to the first exhibition of that short-lived body. He also exhibited twelve works in 1809, and six in 1810, but after that date resigned his membership. His works were carefully drawn and freshly colo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
