John Scott Russell 1808 - 1882
- occupation:
- Engineer, Naval architect
- Nationality:
- Scottish; British
- born in:
- Parkhead, Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
1825 - awarded MA from Glasgow University
1832 - worked as a professor of natural philosophy in Edinburgh
1834 - designed and built six large steam carriages which ran for a short time between Glasgow and Paisley
1838 - became a manager at Caird's engine works in Greenock
1841 - invited to write the section on shipbuilding for the Encyclopaedia Britannica
1844 - moved to London as editor of the Railway Chronicle
1847 - along with his partners, took over the old Fairbairn shipyard at Millwall
1849 - elected FRS
1850 - designed the yacht, Titania, for Robert Stevenson which went on to be defeated by the America to inaugurate the America's Cup
1851 - asked to tender for two big steamerrs for the Australian Royal Mail Co
1856 - the Millwall shipyard failed
1859 - held a small dinner party which led to the formation of the Institution of Naval Architects
1863 - opposed William Froude's theory of rolling
1868 - designed a train ferry for Lake Constance
1873 - designed the great rotunda for the Vienna exhibition.
