See also:

• SIR

SIR See also:

• RICHARD
• RICHARD (d. 1184)
• RICHARD, FRANCOIS MARIE BENJAMIN (18,9-1908)
• RICHARD, HENRY (1812-1888)
• RICHARD, ST

RICHARD See also:

• SIR RICHARD TANGYE (1833-1906)

TANGYE (1833-1906)  , See also:

• BRITISH

British manufacturer, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Illogan, near See also:

• REDRUTH

Redruth, See also:

• CORNWALL

Cornwall, on the 24th of See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1833, the son of a small See also:

• FARMER, RICHARD (1735–1787)

farmer . As a See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

young boy he worked in the See also:

• FIELDS, JAMES THOMAS (1817-1881)

fields, but when he was eight years old he was incapacitated from further See also:

• MANUAL

manual labour by a fracture of the right See also:

• ARM (a common Teutonic word; the Indo-European root is ar, to join or fit; cf. the Lat. armus, shoulder, and the plural word arma, weapons, Gr. apphs, joint, and the reduplicated apapilKSV, to join)

arm . His See also:

• FATHER

father then determined to give him the best See also:

• EDUCATION

education he could afford, and young See also:

• TANGYE, SIR RICHARD (1833-1906)

Tangye was sent to the See also:

• FRIENDS, SOCIETY
• FRIENDS, SOCIETY OF

Friends' School at Sidcot, See also:

• SOMERSETSHIRE

Somersetshire, where he progressed rapidly and became a See also:

• PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil-teacher . Tangye was not See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long See also:

• CON

con-tented with this position, and through an See also:

• ADVERTISEMENT, or ADVERTISING (Fr. avertissement, warning, or notice)

advertisement in The Friend obtained a clerkship in a small See also:

• ENGINEERING

engineering See also:

• FIRM

firm in See also:

• BIRMINGHAM

Birmingham, where two of his See also:

• BROTHERS, RICHARD (1757-1824)

brothers, skilled See also:

• MECHANICS

mechanics, subsequently joined him . Here See also:

• RICHARD
• RICHARD (d. 1184)
• RICHARD, FRANCOIS MARIE BENJAMIN (18,9-1908)
• RICHARD, HENRY (1812-1888)
• RICHARD, ST

Richard Tangye remained four years, obtaining a See also:

• COMPLETE

complete mastery of the details of an engineering business, and introducing the See also:

• SYSTEM

system of a Saturday See also:

• HALF

half-See also:

• HOLIDAY

holiday which was subsequently adopted in all See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• INDUSTRIAL

industrial See also:

• WORKS

works . In 1856 he started business in a small way in Birmingham as a hardware See also:

• FACTOR (from Lat. facere, to make or do)

factor and See also:

• COMMISSION (from Lat. commissio, committere)

commission See also:

• AGENT (from Lat. agere, to act)

agent . Ilis first customers were the Cornish mine-owners in the Redruth See also:

• DISTRICT

district, and, the business prospering, he was able before long to start manufacturing hardware goods on his own See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account, his two brothers joining him in the enterprise . The speciality of the brothers Tangye was the manufacture of machinery, and their See also:

• HYDRAULIC

hydraulic lifting jacks were successfully employed in the launching of the steamship " See also:

• GREAT

Great Eastern." In 1858 the firm, who now confined themselves to making machinery, built their own works, and shortly afterwards secured the See also:

• SOLE (Solea)

sole right of manufacturing the newly invented See also:

• DIFFERENTIAL

differential See also:

• PULLEY

pulley-See also:

• BLOCK
• BLOCK (from the Fr. bloc, and possibly connected with an Old Ger. Block, obstruction, cf. " baulk ")
• BLOCK, MAURICE (1816–19or)

block, thereby materially adding to their business, which came to include every See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind of See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power-See also:

• MACHINE
• MACHINE (through Fr. from Lat. form machina of Gr. µnxavil)

machine—hydraulic, See also:

• STEAM
• STEAM (0. Eng. steam, vapour, smoke, cf. Du. steam; the origin is unknown)

steam, See also:

• GAS

gas, oil and See also:

• ELECTRICITY

electricity . The business was subsequently turned into a limited See also:

• COMPANY

company, and in 1894 J2ichard Tangye was knighted .