Joseph Bramah was an English inventor and locksmith.
20 Facts About Joseph Bramah
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Joseph Bramah is best known for having improved the flush toilet and inventing the hydraulic press.
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Joseph Bramah was the second son in the family of Joseph Bramma, a farmer, and his wife, Mary Denton.
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Joseph Bramah was educated at the local school in Silkstone in South Yorkshire, and on leaving school he was apprenticed to a local carpenter.
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In London, Bramah worked for a Mr Allen, installing water closets which were designed to a patent obtained by Alexander Cumming in 1775.
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Joseph Bramah found that the current model being installed in London houses had a tendency to freeze in cold weather.
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Joseph Bramah received a second patent for a lock design in 1798.
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Partly due to the precision requirements of his locks, Joseph Bramah spent much time developing machine tools to assist manufacturing processes.
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Joseph Bramah relied heavily on the expertise of Henry Maudslay whom he employed in his workshop from the age of 18.
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Joseph Bramah was granted a patent for his hydraulic press in 1795.
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At the time Joseph Bramah was bringing his concepts to fruition, the field of hydraulic engineering was an almost unknown science.
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Joseph Bramah was a very prolific inventor, though not all of his inventions were as important as his hydraulic press.
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Joseph Bramah patented the first extrusion process for making lead pipes and machinery for making gun stocks.
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Joseph Bramah realised that for engines to succeed, they would have to be machined to a much better standard than was the practice.
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Joseph Bramah taught the Cornish engineer Arthur Woolf to machine engines to a close tolerance.
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Joseph Bramah can be viewed as a founding father in industrial quality control.
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One of Joseph Bramah's last inventions was a hydrostatic press capable of uprooting trees.
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Joseph Bramah died at Holt Forest on 9 December 1814.
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Joseph Bramah was buried in the churchyard of St Mary's, Paddington.
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Joseph Bramah was a prolific inventor, and obtained 18 patents for his designs between 1778 and 1812.