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Joseph Bramah exhibited one of his locks in the window of his shop and offered 200 guineas (£ 210 ) to anybody who could devise a method of picking it.
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Until Joseph Bramah patented the beer engine in 1785, beer was served directly from the barrel and carried to the customer.
He later worked for Joseph Bramah on the production of metal locks, and soon after he began working on his own.
A further engine was invented in the late eighteenth century by the locksmith and hydraulic engineer Joseph Bramah ( 1748-1814 ).
Joseph Bramah was an early innovator and William Armstrong perfected the apparatus for power delivery on an industrial scale.
During the summer of 1799 Brunel was introduced to Henry Maudslay, a talented machine tool maker who had been a manager for Joseph Bramah, and had recently started his own business.
Maudslay acquired such a good reputation for his skill that Joseph Bramah ( the inventor of the hydraulic press ) called for his services.
Joseph Bramah is credited with the invention of the forefather of the tubular pin tumbler lock except his used iron wafers not cylinders ( red and blue in diagrams ).
In 1893, before the establishment of a modern automotive industry in Britain, English engineer Bramah Joseph Diplock patented a four-wheel-drive system for a traction engine, including four-wheel steering and three differentials, which was subsequently built.
Building on earlier work by Robert Barron and Joseph Bramah, Jeremiah developed a four-lever lock that when picked or opened with the wrong key would stop working until a special key was used to reset it.
Joseph Bramah ( 13 April 1748 – 9 December 1814 ), born Stainborough Lane Farm, Stainborough, Barnsley Yorkshire, England, was an inventor and locksmith.
Just before Bramah died, his workshops also employed Joseph Clement who among other things made several contributions in the field of lathe design.
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Among the works exhibited were Le Fauconnier's vast composition Les Montagnards attaqués par des ours ( Mountaineers Attacked by Bears ) now at Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Joseph Csaky's Deux Femme, Two Women ( a sculpture now lost ), in addition to the highly abstract paintings by Kupka, Amorpha ( The National Gallery, Prague ), and Picabia, La Source, The Spring ( Museum of Modern Art, New York ).
Joseph Csaky, after Archipenko, was the first sculptor in Paris to join the Cubists, with whom he exhibited from 1911 on.
The " Elephant Man ", Joseph Carey Merrick ( 1862 – 1890 ) became well known in Whitechapel — he was exhibited in a shop on the Whitechapel Road before being helped by Dr Frederick Treves ( 1853 – 1923 ) at the Royal London Hospital, opposite the actual shop.
Joseph Beuys exhibited modified found objects, such as rocks with a hole in them stuffed with fur and fat, a van with sledges trailing behind it, and a rusty girder.
Joseph Carey Merrick ( 5 August 1862 – 11 April 1890 ), sometimes incorrectly referred to as John Merrick, was an English man with severe deformities who was exhibited as a human curiosity named the Elephant Man.
The Art & Language group that exhibited in the international Documenta exhibitions of 1972 included Atkinson, Bainbridge, Baldwin, Hurrell, Pilkington and Rushton and the then America editor of Art-Language Joseph Kosuth.
His earliest painting represented " Joseph interpreting the Dreams of the Baker and Butler "; the first to excite particular attention was The Nightmare, exhibited in 1782.
On leaving school he successively entered the studios of Antoine Montfort, Louis Lamothe and Alexandre Cabanel, was beaten for the Prix de Rome ( 1863 ) by Joseph Layraud and Xaiver Monchablon, and in 1864 exhibited two portraits in no wise remarkable at the Paris Salon.
Flamank and Joseph were hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn ( 27 June ), and their limbs exhibited in various parts of the city.
Although Moreno exhibited a good deal of promise in 2003, he was not able to earn a consistent starting role with the Galaxy because of a logjam at the forward position, which included Guatemalan star Carlos Ruiz and former US international Jovan Kirovski, as well as recent acquisition Joseph Ngwenya.
The Scottish artist Joseph Noel Paton exhibited two immensely detailed paintings based on the popular fairy scenes of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
In September 1844, Baker exhibited impetuous bravado in an incident arising out of the murder of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, by a mob in a jail near Nauvoo, Illinois.
The plates were briefly exhibited in the city, and then sent on to Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.
The work of thousands of artists has been exhibited in the Carnegie International, including that of Winslow Homer, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Mary Cassatt, Camille Pissarro, Auguste Rodin, Willem de Kooning, Henry Moore, Jackson Pollock, René Magritte, Joan Miró, Alberto Giacometti, Andy Warhol, Joseph Beuys, Sigmar Polke, and William Kentridge.
* Silver King, the nickname for Tom Norman, the owner of the freak show that exhibited Joseph Merrick, known as the " Elephant Man "
He also exhibited a study of " Sardanapalus ," as well as " The Wailing-Place at Jerusalem " and " The Proclamation of Joseph as Ruler of Egypt.
The group's most prominent members early on were Heinrich Lefler and Joseph Urban, who had originally worked and exhibited within the conservative Vienna Künstlerhaus, but now, like the Vienna Secession, rebelled against the establishment and formed their own organization.
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