Richard Roberts (engineer)

Richard Roberts ( born April 22, 1789 in Carraghova, Wales, † March 11, 1864 in London) was a British engineer, who advanced the automated production.

Already with 16 Roberts took on a job as a draftsman in the iron work of John Wilkinson in Bradley. Some years later he founded his own company. In 1828 he founded, together with Thomas Sharp, the company Roberts jr. for the production of tools, machines and locomotives. During this time he developed invented by Samuel Crompton's spinning machine to an automatic machine, the self-actor. But a number of important inventions in the field of machine tools go back to him. So he built in 1817 a planing machine, in which the workpiece is moved by means of a chain hoist. He also introduced the countershaft and loose step washers on the lathe and it is believed that he invented the self-release of the tool carriage.

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  • Mechanical Engineer
  • Born in 1789
  • Died in 1864
  • Man
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