John Baillie (railway engineer)

John Baillie ( born May 10, 1806 Newcastle upon Tyne; † October 29, 1859 in Vienna ) was a mechanical engineer.

Life

Baillie came in 1836 with the appointed at George Stephenson locomotives Emperor Ferdinand Northern Railway ( KFNB ) and trained the staff of the Austrian KFNB on the locomotives.

In 1839 he founded the Northern Railway workshop in Floridsdorf. In 1841 he accepted a position with Emil Kessler in Karlsruhe. In 1845 he joined the Hungarian Central Railway. In 1846 he invented the eponymous Bailliesche screw spring for installation in buffers of railway vehicles.

• Railway engineer
• Person (Vienna)
• Briton
• Born in 1806
• Died in 1859
• Man