John Baillie (Railway Engineer)

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John Baillie (* 10. May 1806 in upon Tyne Newcastle ; † 29. October 1859 in Vienna ) was a mechanical engineering - engineering .

Life

Baillie came to the Kaiser Ferdinands-Nordbahn (KFNB) in 1836 with the locomotives ordered from George Stephenson and trained the Austrian KFNB staff on the locomotives.

In 1839 he founded the northern railway workshop in Floridsdorf . In 1841 he took a job with Emil Keßler in Karlsruhe . In 1845 he moved to the Hungarian Central Railway . In 1846 he invented the Baillies helical spring, named after him, for installation in the buffers of rail vehicles .

personal data
SURNAME Baillie, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English-Austrian railway engineer
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Newcastle upon Tyne
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1859
Place of death Vienna