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Calendar of Industrial Pioneers

Nature volume 109, page 255 (1922)Cite this article

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February 23, 1860. Joseph Miller died.—Trained as a mechanical engineer at Boulton and Watt's, Miller in 1822 with Barnes established one of the most successful marine engineering works on the Thames. He was a promoter of screw propulsion, and for H.M.S. Amphion built the first set of direct-acting screw engines placed below the water-line.

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S., E. Calendar of Industrial Pioneers. Nature 109, 255 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109255a0

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