John Gamgee

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Gamgee Zeromotor: 1884

John Gamgee (* 1831 ; † 1894 ) was a veterinarian and inventor. He was Professor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery at the New Veterinary College in Edinburgh.

John Gamgee and Eduard Hering organized the 1st World Veterinary Congress in Hamburg in 1863. He later developed the first artificial ice rinks with an artificially frozen ice surface in 1876. He used the Raoul Pictet and WW Ludlow rotary engine freezing process . His design also included railways in Northumberland Avenue, London and others in Rusholme, Manchester.

In 1880 he began developing his zero motor.

He wanted to build a refrigerated hospital ship to treat yellow fever patients.

Fonts

  • On the chemical composition, use and action of sheep-dipping mixtures ; Edinburgh, 1859
  • Our Domestic Animals In Health And Disease V2 (1871)
  • Yellow Fever, a Nautical Disease: Its Origin and Prevention ( Online )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A to Z Encyclopaedia of Ice Hockey - Ga
  2. ↑ A Nickel Pickle ( Memento from April 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Gamgee, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British veterinarian and inventor
DATE OF BIRTH 1831
DATE OF DEATH 1894