Sir William Fairbairn FRS 1st Baronet
(1789-1874)

engineer, inventor of the riveting machine, designer of the Lancashire Boiler, founder of the Mechanics Institute, Fellow of the Royal Society (from 1850), President of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers (1854-1855), and 1st Baronet Fairbairn of Ardwick (from 1869)

Died aged c. 85

Sir William Fairbairn, 1st Baronet of Ardwick Bt FRS (19 February 1789 – 18 August 1874) was a Scottish civil engineer, structural engineer and shipbuilder. In 1854 he succeeded George Stephenson and Robert Stephenson to become the third president of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

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Sir William Fairbairn (1789 - 1874) Engineer, inventor of the riveting machine, designed the Lancashire Boiler and jointly set up the Mechanics Institute. Started business from a workshop in High Street in 1817.

Arndale Centre, High Street, Manchester, United Kingdom where they started business from a workshop near