Thomas Andrews (metallurgist)
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Thomas Andrews (died 1871), was a British metallurgist of international renown.
In 1850 Thomas Andrews, Samuel Burrows and John Burrows, trading as Andrews, Burrows and Co. took over the works at Wortley.[1] Andrews' experiments on fatigue and fracture at Wortley Top Forge led to the manufacture of railway axles of internationally reputed quality.
After his death in 1871 his son Thomas Andrews (1847-1907) [2] took an active part in running the forges.
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.topforge.co.uk/History%20Notes.htm
- ^ Geoffrey Tweedale, ‘Andrews, Thomas (1847–1907)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 12 Nov 2011
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