Nicholas Wood

Nicholas Wood ( born April 24, 1795 † December 19, 1865 ) was an English steam locomotive engineer.

From 1811 he worked at the coal mine Killingworth Colliery and helped George Stephenson in the workshop behind the Dial Cottage in developing his safety lamp for miners and 1814 in steam locomotive My Lord (later Blücher ) following the example of John Blenkinsops machine. At that time, grain prices at a record high and thus steam engines were cheaper than horses because of the war. In 1818 he conducted a series of experiments to rolling resistance and the like. 1823 Wood arranged a meeting between Stephenson and Edward Pease.

With its analysis of different types of drives, which he reported in 1825, he acquired great reputation. In 1832 he was involved in the construction of the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway and from 1845 he was director of the Newcastle and Berwick Railway.

After a mining accident in St. Hilda's Colliery, South Shields, in which 50 workers died, he was co-founder in 1852 of the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, which he was president for life.

Works

• Wood, Nicholas ( 1825): A Practical Treatise on Rail -roads and Interior Communication in General. London: Knight & Lacey. ( Online)