* 1784 – William Murdoch built a working model of a steam carriage in Redruth, England

By this time Murdoch had already built a working model of his steam carriage, which was held in the Museum of Science and Industry, Birmingham until its closure in 1997 and is now at Thinktank, Birmingham's new science museum ; accounts exist from witnesses who " saw the model steam carriage run around Murdoch's living room in Redruth in 1784 ".

Shortly after this birth, and with a second model already built, Murdoch took steps to patent his steam locomotive.

However, it is argued by John Griffiths that Murdoch may have built a full-size steam carriage some time in the 1790s, which could be the source of this story.

In 1817 Murdoch moved into a large new house he had built outside Birmingham.

Treasury Place forms Australia's finest Renaissance revival streetscape, combining the facades of the Premier's Department and Treasury, State Offices, now occupied by the Education Department, the former Government Printing Office and Commonwealth Government Offices ( built 1912 – 1914 to the design of John Smith Murdoch ), all overlooking the Treasury Gardens.

By 1784, William Murdoch had built a working model of a steam carriage in Redruth, and in 1801 Richard Trevithick was running a full-sized vehicle on the road in Camborne.

During 2005 the Western Australian Government announced plans to relocate RPH operations to purpose built facilities in Murdoch, the new facilities will be known as the Fiona Stanley Hospital.

Though others made a similar innovation elsewhere, the large scale introduction of this was the work of William Murdoch, an employee of Boulton and Watt, the Birmingham steam engine pioneers.

Murdoch was employed by the firm of Boulton and Watt and worked for them in Cornwall, as a steam engine erector for ten years, spending most of the rest of his life in Birmingham, England.

Murdoch was the inventor of the oscillating cylinder steam engine, and gas lighting is attributed to him in the early 1790s, also the term " gasometer ".

Murdoch also made innovations to the steam engine, including the sun and planet gear and D slide valve.

In 1777, at age 23, Murdoch walked to Birmingham, a distance of over, to ask for a job with James Watt, the steam engine manufacturer.

Murdoch progressed to work in fitting and erecting steam engines and was often sent from Soho for this purpose.

On his first solo job erecting an engine at Wanlockhead Mine, Murdoch made the first of many improvements to the standard Boulton and Watt engine by rearranging the gears to enable the steam valve to be worked automatically by the action of the exhaust shaft.

Due to the frequent problems which could occur with steam engines Murdoch was kept busy traveling around the area repairing and attempting to improve the performance of the engines under his care.

While based in Cornwall Murdoch had to deal with a wide range of mechanical problems related to steam engines, and this led him to make practical improvements to the basic steam engine designs used by Boulton and Watt.

Another story often told, this one almost certainly apocryphal, is of Murdoch travelling from " mine to mine in a steam chaise lit by gas ", given the state of the roads at that time this can be discounted.

A fact important to the later development of the steam locomotive by others was that, in 1797 and 1798, Richard Trevithick came to live in Redruth next door to the house where William Murdoch lived ( 1782 to 1798 ).

In any event without the support of Boulton and Watt, who appear to have opposed Murdoch's work due to the need to use high pressure steam which Watt distrusted, Murdoch was unable to develop or gain publicity for his invention and it was left to Trevithick and others to develop it commercially later.

* Murdoch Flyer Project A project to build a replica of Murdoch's steam powered carriage

In the early 1790s, while overseeing the use of his company's steam engines in tin mining in Cornwall, Murdoch began experimenting with various types of gas, finally settling on coal-gas as the most effective.

An example of this type of locomotive can be seen on the Thomas and Friends TV Series, in the form of the character Murdoch, introduced in 2003.

This locomotive was named after William Murdoch.

Apart from this Murdoch does not appear to have worked much on his ideas from 1784 to 1786, because of the continuing high volume of work for Boulton and Watt, his marriage in 1785, and the birth of his and his wife's twins in the same year.

One such was the discovery, first recorded in 1784, of iron cement made from sal ammoniac, or ammonium chloride and iron filings, apparently discovered when Murdoch observed that these 2 components had accidentally mixed in his tool bag and formed a solid mass.

The river flows through the small mining village of Lugar, where at Bellow Mill, William Murdoch, the inventor of gas lighting was born in 1784.

Following the Super League war of the 1990s Crowe made an attempt to use his Hollywood connections to convince Ted Turner, rival of Super League's Rupert Murdoch, to save the Rabbitohs before they were forced from the National Rugby League competition for two years.

On May 1, 2007, Dow Jones released a statement confirming that News Corporation, led by Rupert Murdoch, had made an unsolicited offer of $ 60 per share, or $ 5 billion, for Dow Jones.

In his spare time he made more BBC broadcasts, during the course of which he met Flight Lieutenant Richard Murdoch.

Both Watt and Murdoch were probably aware of each other because of their connections with James Boswell, who had made several visits to Watt's workshop at Soho.

This model was not the only one made by Murdoch as he continued experimenting with the design and by August 1786 had made at least one other model, of a different size, which we know of.

In addition to his mechanical work Murdoch also experimented in the field of chemistry and made a number of discoveries.

In 1795 Murdoch developed a replacement for isinglass, a precipitate made from sturgeon used in the clarifying of beer to remove impurities, which had to be imported from Russia at great expense.

Despite his pioneering work with gas Murdoch never made any money from this invention due to his failure to obtain a patent.

When she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, he wrote the book Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch, which was made into the 2001 film Iris by Richard Eyre.

A 2007 Journal article quoted charges that Murdoch had made and broken similar promises in the past.

The IBA was rendered helpless and Rupert Murdoch made a voluntary agreement to adhere to those Broadcasting Standards Commission rules relating to non-economic matters, such as the technology used.

BSB's shareholders and News International ( Murdoch ) all made huge profits on their investments, the 50: 50 merged venture had an effective multi channel quasi monopoly on UK satellite pay TV.

Maxwell accused Murdoch of employing " the laws of the jungle " to acquire the paper and said he had " made a fair and bona fide offer ... which has been frustrated and defeated after three months of manoeuvring.

Isinglass was originally made exclusively from sturgeon, especially Beluga sturgeon, until the 1795 invention by William Murdoch of a cheap substitute using cod.

At the Telegraph Group, Murdoch MacLennan made over 100 journalists redundant in 2006, prompting the National Union of Journalists to consider strike action.

In 1979, Murdoch made an unsuccessful takeover bid for the Melbourne-based The Herald and Weekly Times media group.

Murdoch was disqualified from the 1886 election after an unsubstantiated allegation was made that he had tampered with votes.

Rupert Murdoch made an unsuccessful bid for the Herald and Weekly Times, owners of HSV-7, in 1979, later going on to gain control of rival ATV-10.

Not long after the Metromedia deal was made, Murdoch purchased Davis's shares and News Corp assumed complete control of 20th Century Fox.