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Samuel Geoghegan (born 1845 in Dublin, died 4 September 1928) was an Irish mechanical engineer.
Dubliner Samuel Geoghegan: Guinness Brewery Engineer.
22 October 2015. He was then for three years an apprentice at the engineering company Walter May & Co of
Samuel Geoghehan (1845-1928).
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Samuel Geoghehan: Locomotives
/ref> By 1899, he had become head of the Guinness Brewery's electrical and mechanical engineering staff. He retired on 9 July 1901, at the age of 56, but was retained as a consultant until 11 February 1905. After his retirement, he ran a private practice from 17 Westland Row. He had married in 1876 and had five children. He died on 4 September 1928.
Samuel Geoghegan (born 1845 in Dublin, died 4 September 1928) was an Irish mechanical engineer.
Life and career
Samuel Geoghegan was in 1861, according to the English census of that year, a pupil of a schoolmaster named Richard Biggs inDevizes
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, Wiltshire
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.John Anthony BrennanDubliner Samuel Geoghegan: Guinness Brewery Engineer.
22 October 2015. He was then for three years an apprentice at the engineering company Walter May & Co of
Birmingham
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and was afterwards a draughtsman with P. and W. MacLelland, and Howden & Co of Glasgow
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and a fitter with Fawcett, Preston & Co of Liverpool
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.Grace's Guide to British Industrial HistorySamuel Geoghehan (1845-1928).
/ref> In 1869 he went to
Smyrna
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in Turkey
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as a mechanic and draughtsman with the Ottoman Railway, and two years later he returned to England as a fitter in the Doncaster Locomotive Works of the Great Northern Railway
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In 1871 he went to India and was engaged on the construction of a bridge two miles long over the river Chenab
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in the Punjab
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, first as assistant engineer and then as executive engineer in charge of half the bridge. Subsequently, he was for a year a district locomotive superintendent on the railway near Delhi
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In 1874 he was appointed chief engineer to Arthur Guinness & Son of Dublin, and he retained this position until 1901, when he became consulting engineer to the company. In 1880 he became a Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
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In 1882 he invented and patented a lightweight steam locomotive with all moving parts high above the dirty floor to fit within a 6 ft (1.8 m) loading gauge. He invented also a ''Haulage Wagon'' by which his patented narrow gauge
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locomotives could be used on broad gauge
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track.Grace's Guide to British Industrial HistorySamuel Geoghehan: Locomotives
/ref> By 1899, he had become head of the Guinness Brewery's electrical and mechanical engineering staff. He retired on 9 July 1901, at the age of 56, but was retained as a consultant until 11 February 1905. After his retirement, he ran a private practice from 17 Westland Row. He had married in 1876 and had five children. He died on 4 September 1928.
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