Sir Richard Trevithick Tangye (24 November 1833 - 14 October 1906) was a British manufacturer of engines and other heavy equipment. Events 380 - Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal Year 1833 ( MDCCCXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Events 1066 - Norman Conquest: Battle of Hastings - In England on Senlac Hill seven miles from Hastings, the forces Year 1906 ( MCMVI) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Manufacturing (from Latin manu factura, "making by hand" is the use of tools and labor to make things for use or sale An engine is a mechanical device that produces some form of output from a given input

He was born at Illogan, near Redruth, Cornwall, the son of a small farmer. Illogan is a village and Civil parish in the Kerrier district of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, not far from Redruth Redruth (Rysrudh is a town and Civil parish in the district of Kerrier (traditionally in Penwith Hundred) Cornwall, England Cornwall ( Kernow ˈkɛɹnɔʊ is the most southwesterly county of England, on the Peninsula that lies to the west of the River Tamar As a young boy he worked in the fields, but when he was eight years old he was incapacitated from further manual labour by a fracture of the right arm. His father then determined to give him the best education he could afford, and young Tangye was sent to the Friends' School at Sidcot, Somerset, where he progressed rapidly and became a pupil-teacher. This article is a list of schools associated with the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers Somerset ( or) is a county in south west England The County town is Taunton, which is in the south of the county

Tangye was not long contented with this position, and through an advertisement in The Friend obtained a clerkship in a small engineering firm in Birmingham, where two of his brothers, skilled mechanics, subsequently joined him. The Friend is a weekly Quaker magazine published in London England Birmingham ( ˈbɜːmɪŋəm Ber -ming-um Here Richard Tangye remained four years, obtaining a complete mastery of the details of an engineering business, and introducing the system of a Saturday half-holiday which was subsequently adopted in all English industrial works.

In 1856 he started business in a small way in Birmingham as a hardware factor and commission agent. His first customers were the Cornish mine-owners in the Redruth district, and, the business prospering, he was able before long to start manufacturing hardware goods on his own account, his two brothers joining him in the enterprise. The speciality of the brothers Tangye was the manufacture of machinery, and their hydraulic lifting jacks were successfully employed in the launching of the steamship Great Eastern. History Concept After the Great Exhibition of 1851 which had publicized Australia's wealth and natural resources waves of people were eager to emigrate from

Tangye hoist exhibit, Gold Reef City tourist goldmine attraction, Johannesburg, South Africa (David Tangye - 1997)

In 1858 the firm, who now confined themselves to making machinery, built their own works, and shortly afterwards secured the sole right of manufacturing the newly invented differential pulley-block, thereby materially adding to their business, which came to include every kind of power-machine - hydraulic, steam, gas, oil and electricity. The business was subsequently turned into a limited company, and in 1894 Richard Tangye was knighted. He died in October 1906.

He was the grandfather of the authors Derek Tangye and Nigel Tangye. Derek Tangye (1912-1996 was a famous author who lived in Cornwall. Nigel Tangye born 24 April 1909 Kensington, England, died 2 June 1988 Camborne Redruth, Cornwall

The Tangye company continued building engines (first steam engines, then hot bulb engines, then finally a range of large industrial diesel engines), pumps and hydraulic equipment. A steam engine is a Heat engine that performs Mechanical work using Steam as its Working fluid. A diesel engine is an Internal combustion engine which operates using the Diesel cycle (named after Dr For the mechanical technology see Hydraulic machinery and Hydraulic cylinder Hydraulics is a topic of science and Engineering Engine production was stopped after the Second World War and the company concentrated on hydraulic pumps, valves and related systems. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including

References

• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain. The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1910–1911 is a 29-volume reference work that marked the beginning of the Encyclopædia Britannica The public domain is a range of abstract materials &ndash commonly referred to as Intellectual property &ndash which are not owned or controlled by anyone

Further reading

• ODNB article by W. The Dictionary of National Biography ( DNB) is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history published from 1885 B. Owen, ‘Tangye, Sir Richard (1833–1906)’, rev. H. C. G. Matthew, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 8 June 2008