biography
pronunciation:
[muhknawt]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1813–81)
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| biography:
| Engineer and inventor, born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, W Scotland, UK. He was apprenticed to marine engineer Robert Napier, and attended classes at the Andersonian Institution in Glasgow. He joined his father in the manufacture of steam-engine components, and in 1845 conceived the idea of adding to an existing engine a smaller second cylinder, operating at a higher pressure and exhausting spent steam into the original cylinder, where its remaining energy could be utilized, creating a ‘compound engine’. For many years this process was called McNaughting. |
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