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THOMAS PARKER
Thomas Parker
Inventor
Dates of interest in Thomas Parker’s life include:-
1881 (Age 38) Responsible for the first electric tramway in the world at Portrush, Northern Ireland. Powered by the first hydro electric generator.
1882 Shared the invention of the Plante Battery
1882 Founded the first company in The Midlands to manufacture electrical equipment in Commercial Road, Wolverhampton - in parnership with Mr Paul Bedford Elwell
1884 Designed electric powered transmission system for collieries
1884/86 Designed equipment for refining copper by electricity
1887 Invented the method of producing phosphorus and chlorate of soda by electricity
1889 Invented the sparking plug
1889 Designed the first electric locomotive for the Birmingham Tramways
1891 Made the first electric omnibus to run in London, from Charing Cross to Victoria, at 7mph
1892 Designed the high voltage direct current system for the City of Oxford
1893 The firm of Elwell and Parker was reconstituted as The Electric Construction Company.
1893 Responsible for the electrification of the South Staffordshire Tramway
1893 Responsible for the electrification of the Liverpool Overhead Railway for which he was awarded the Stephenson Medal and the Telford Premium by The Institute of Civil Engineers.
1894 Founded the firm of Thomas Parker (Ltd) in Wolverhampton
1896 Produced a prototype 'electric dog-cart'
1898 Contested Kingswinford seat of Parliament for the Liberal Party
1899 Responsible for the electrification of the first underground railway in Great Britain, a section of the London Metropolitan Railway, as a result he was invited to join the Board of Directors of this company.1904 Awarded two gold medals by the smoke abatement society for his work against air pollution. One for his invention of the Kyrle Fire Grate and one for his invention of the distillation of coal by low temperature method to produce a smokeless fuel.
1905 He urged the necessity of decimalisation of the English weights, measures and currency and did much to promote a decimal system of his own creation.
1907 Bought Severn House and the Court Works in Madeley
1910 Patented the forerunner of the jeep
Courtesy of The History of the Valley Hotel, Coalbrookdale
Born: 1843
Died: 1915
THOMAS PARKER
Thomas Parker
Inventor
Dates of interest in Thomas Parker’s life include:-
1881 (Age 38) Responsible for the first electric tramway in the world at Portrush, Northern Ireland. Powered by the first hydro electric generator.
1882 Shared the invention of the Plante Battery
1882 Founded the first company in The Midlands to manufacture electrical equipment in Commercial Road, Wolverhampton - in parnership with Mr Paul Bedford Elwell
1884 Designed electric powered transmission system for collieries
1884/86 Designed equipment for refining copper by electricity
1887 Invented the method of producing phosphorus and chlorate of soda by electricity
1889 Invented the sparking plug
1889 Designed the first electric locomotive for the Birmingham Tramways
1891 Made the first electric omnibus to run in London, from Charing Cross to Victoria, at 7mph
1892 Designed the high voltage direct current system for the City of Oxford
1893 The firm of Elwell and Parker was reconstituted as The Electric Construction Company.
1893 Responsible for the electrification of the South Staffordshire Tramway
1893 Responsible for the electrification of the Liverpool Overhead Railway for which he was awarded the Stephenson Medal and the Telford Premium by The Institute of Civil Engineers.
1894 Founded the firm of Thomas Parker (Ltd) in Wolverhampton
1896 Produced a prototype 'electric dog-cart'
1898 Contested Kingswinford seat of Parliament for the Liberal Party
1899 Responsible for the electrification of the first underground railway in Great Britain, a section of the London Metropolitan Railway, as a result he was invited to join the Board of Directors of this company.1904 Awarded two gold medals by the smoke abatement society for his work against air pollution. One for his invention of the Kyrle Fire Grate and one for his invention of the distillation of coal by low temperature method to produce a smokeless fuel.
1905 He urged the necessity of decimalisation of the English weights, measures and currency and did much to promote a decimal system of his own creation.
1907 Bought Severn House and the Court Works in Madeley
1910 Patented the forerunner of the jeep
Courtesy of The History of the Valley Hotel, Coalbrookdale
Born: 1843
Died: 1915