Subjects  |  Engineering

King's Cross fire

Event, Engineering, Tragedy

John Peake Knight

Inventor of the world's first traffic lights. Engineer and railway manager from Nottingham.

Person, Engineering

Colonel George Thomas Landmann

Army officer and engineer. Born Woolwich, the son of a professor at the Royal Military Academy. He studied at the Academy, joined the Royal Engineers and served abroad constructing fortifications, ...

Person, Engineering, Spain

A. A. Langley

Engineer. His name appears on a stone at Abbey Road DLR Station. We have found references to him on-line as an engineer and chief engineer on several railways in Britain. Abbey Road DLR Station was...

Person, Engineering

Lavender Pumphouse

Built to control the water level in the former Surrey Docks.

Building, Engineering

Stephen William Leigh

Engineer at Teddington Lock, 1857.

Person, Engineering

Lesney Products & Co. Ltd.

The company's name came from the forenames of its founders Leslie Smith (1918 - 2005) and Rodney Smith (1917 - 2013). They were not related, but had been schoolfriends and also served together in t...

Group, Engineering

Lewisham pump

Former community pump. See the plaque for its history.

Place, Engineering

L. G. Mouchel & Partners Ltd

Andrew Behan found this company, still existing  in 1961. It was an engineering company formed in 1897 by a Louis Gustave Mouchel and incorporated as a limited company in 1908. It specialised in th...

Group, Engineering

Lighthouse Automation Programme

The conversion to automatic operation of all the lighthouses and light vessels. The last one to be done (perfectly timed to occur on Trafalgar Day) was North Foreland Light in Kent. For the 400 yea...

Event, Engineering, Transport