George Fosbery Lyster
George Fosbery Lyster ( born September 7, 1821 in Mount Talbot, County Roscommon, Ireland, † May 11 1899 in London) was a British port construction engineer. He was responsible for the design of the port of Liverpool and is considered the inventor of special conveyors for grain and rock.
Life
He was the third son of the Commander and Colonel Anthony Lyster, civil engineer in Douglas (Isle of Man). Lyster attended King William 's College near Castletown on the Isle of Man, then went on to his time quite famous engineer James Meadows Rendel (1799-1856) in training and his Masters of Engineering.
He started in 1846 as an assistant engineer ( Assistant Resident Engineer ) and stayed for seven years until 1853 at the Holyhead Harbour Works. Here he was responsible for maintenance involved with engineer George Clarisse Dobson (1801-1874) are jointly responsible development of port infrastructure and the construction of the breakwater there.
From 1853 to 1856 he was an engineer (Resident Engineer) at the harbor works of Guernsey (Guernsey Harbour Works) was founded in 1856 and in charge of Chief Engineer ( Engineer -in- Chief ) of Saint Peter Port.
When his brief predecessor John Hartley unexpectedly fell ill, got Lyster in 1861 as one of 70 candidates to the post of chief engineer in charge ( Engineer -in- Chief ) of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board in Liverpool, where he remained until 1897. In its responsibility of building the new Birkenhead Dock ( 1870) fell on the Wirral side of the river Mersey, the Herculaneum Dock ( 1863), Langton Dock and Alexandra Dock ( 1881), Harrington Dock ( 1883), Hornby Dock ( 1884) and the Toxteth Dock ( 1888) as well as wide rhyming north. He also built large granary on both banks of the Mersey.
However Lysters reputation damage, as in the construction of six-storey granary Waterloo (1863-1868) suffered a calculation error for result was that the ceilings of the floors were not sustainable enough. This error was noticed shortly before completion. Lyster was apologized by saying that he was overloaded with a rapidly anwachsendem workload and could not control every detail of his work engineering department, but was reproached to him that such under his predecessor Jesse Hartley (1780-1860) would not have happened. In addition, Lyster was involved in a minor scandal when it became known that dock workers had to perform private work for superiors.
On November 10th, 1862 Lyster filed his patent Improvements in apparatus for elevating or otherwise Transmitting grain and other granular substances, and thus is considered the inventor of special conveyors for grain or rock. In experiments, so he scored 1868 first useful results. On 3 March 1863, he announced the patent Improvements in mooring buoys. During this time (1862-1864) he was just in the Devonshire Road by Alfred Waterhouse be Gisburne House build in neo-Gothic style.
He also designed the Liverpool Overhead Railway, the oldest elevated railway for electrically powered trains and the second oldest elevated railway in the world. It was inaugurated on 4 February 1893 by Cecil Georgina Alderson, wife of Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne - Cecil temporary, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury.
In 1897, Lyster went with an annual company pension of £ 2,500 in retirement. His immediate successor was his son Anthony George Lyster.
In addition to his civilian occupation Lyster also was Lieutenant Colonel in the Engineers and Railway Volunteer Staff Corps ( volunteer corps ). Lyster died on May 11, 1899 in London at the age of 77 years of pneumonia.
Memberships
- Board Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, member since December 7, 1858
- Member of the Smeatonians ( Society of Civil Engineers) since 1866
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- A member of the Wellington Rooms, one of the most exclusive clubs in Liverpool
Publications
- Report of George Fosbery Lyster, engineer of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, to the Special Committee, appointed on January 11th, 1872, published by Liverpool Printing and Stationery Co., 1872
- Recent extensions dock at Liverpool, with a general description of the Mersey dock estate, the Port of Liverpool and the River Mersey, in: Minutes of proceedings, Institute of Civil Engineers, Volume 100, London 1890
- Plan of the Mersey Dock Estate, Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, 1882
- On the Physical and Engineering Features of the River Mersey and the Port of Liverpool, Lecture at the 66th meeting (1899 ) of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, in: Bibliotheca geographica, Volumes 5-6, Geographical Society of Berlin, published by WH Kuhl, 1899, page 548-568
Orders and Awards
- Knight of the Belgian Order of Leopold