biography
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Vauclain, Samuel (Matthews)
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| lived:
| (1856–1940)
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| biography:
| Engineer and inventor, born in Port Richmond, Pennsylvania, USA. After an apprenticeship with the Pennsylvania Railroad shops, he joined the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia (1883), and remained with the company for the rest of his life. He perfected a series of improvements to locomotives and became a world authority on locomotive design. As president (from 1919) and later board chairman (from 1929) of Baldwin, he was noteworthy for his hostility to labour unions, once firing 2500 workers he considered to be agitators. |
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