Charles Cochrane (engineer)

Charles Cochrane (1835 Blackbrook, Belper, Derbyshire – 1898) was a British engineer. He was a leading authority on blast furnaces.[1] He secured a patent for dehumidifing air.[2]

Life

In 1850, he studied at King's College London. He worked with Samuel Holden Blackwell, at Russell's Hall Iron Works, and other blast-furnaces, mills and forges.

His father, Alexander Brodie Cochrane, was the owner of Woodside Iron Works. In 1855, he went to the Ormesby Iron Works. In 1856, he became a partner with his father.[3]

The Woodside Iron Works supplied many important structures, including the Holborn Viaduct, Westminster Bridge, Cannon Street Railway Bridge, Charing Cross railway station, and the Runcorn Railway Bridge. They helped relocate the Hungerford Suspension Bridge from the Thames to the Clifton Suspension Bridge at Bristol.

References

  1. ↑ http://heritage.imeche.org/Biographies/CharlesCochrane
  2. ↑ Chemical engineering 11. McGraw-Hill Pub. Co. 1913.
  3. ↑ http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/wiki/Woodside_Ironworks_and_Foundry

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Professional and academic associations
Preceded by
Edward Hamer Carbutt		 President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
1889 		Succeeded by
Joseph Tomlinson
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