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===Sources=== {{refbegin|30em|indent=yes}} *{{cite book|author=Anon.|title=The Illustrated London Almanack 1869|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G_hBAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA23|year=1869|publisher=Illustrated London News|location=London}} *{{cite book | last = Atkinson | first = Norman | author-link = Norman Atkinson | title = Sir Joseph Whitworth: "the World's Best Mechanician" | publisher = [[Sutton Publishing|Sutton]] | year = 1996 | location = Gloucester|isbn = 0-7509-1211-1}} *{{cite book|last=Bradshaw|first=L.D.|title=Origins of Street Names in the City Centre of Manchester: A Selection|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wEoAAgAACAAJ|year=1985|publisher=Richardson|isbn=978-0-907511-87-8}} *{{cite web | last =Edkins | first =Jo | title =Small units | work =Imperial Measures of Length | date =2009 | url =http://www.gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/units/length.htm#small | access-date =2009-09-23 | archive-date =17 November 2020 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20201117150355/http://www.gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/units/length.htm#small | url-status =dead }} *{{cite book|last=Kilburn|first= Terence |date=1987|title=Joseph Whitworth: Toolmaker|publisher= Scarthin Books |isbn=0907758223}} *{{cite book|last=Kilburn|first=Terrence|title=Darley's 'Lady Bountiful': Lady Mary Louisa Whitworth, 1829-1896|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XRUmcgAACAAJ|year=1990|publisher=Higham Press}} *{{cite book|last=Lea|first=Frederick Charles|author-link=Frederick Charles Lea|title=Sir Joseph Whitworth, a Pioneer of Mechanical Engineering|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tNptAAAAIAAJ|year=1948|publisher=Longman|location=London}} *{{cite book|last=Roe|first=Joseph Wickham|author-link=Joseph Wickham Roe|title=English and American Tool Builders|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/englishandameri03roegoog/page/n154/mode/2up|year=1916|publisher=Yale University Press|location=New Haven, CT|chapter=Ch. IX Whitworth}} *{{cite ODNB|first1=A. W.|last1= Ward|title=Christie, Richard Copley (1830β1901) |first2= M. C. |last2=Curthoys|date=23 September 2004|id=32408}} *{{cite DNB|wstitle=Whitworth, Joseph|first=Thomas|last= Seccombe|volume=61}} *{{cite book |last1=Whitworth |first1=Joseph |last2=Wallis |first2=George |title=The Industry of the United States in Machinery, Manufactures, and Useful and Ornamental Arts. Compiled from the Official Reports of Messrs. Whitworth and Wallis |date=1854 |publisher=G. Routledge & Co. |location=London, England |hdl=2027/coo.31924030701001}} *{{cite book|last=Whitworth|first=Joseph|title=Miscellaneous Papers on Mechanical Subjects: Guns and Steel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IshXAAAAYAAJ|year=1873|publisher=Longmans, Green, Reader, & Dyer}} {{refend}} {{Commons category|Joseph Whitworth}} {{s-start}} {{s-npo|pro}} {{s-bef |before=[[William Fairbairn]] }} {{s-ttl |title=President of the [[Institution of Mechanical Engineers]] |years=1856β1857 }} {{s-aft| after=[[John Penn (engineer)|John Penn]] }} {{s-bef |before=[[Robert Napier (engineer)|Robert Napier]] }} {{s-ttl |title=President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers |years=1865β1866 }} {{s-aft| after=John Penn }} {{s-reg|uk-bt}} {{s-new|Creation}} {{s-ttl|title=[[Baronet]]<br />'''(of The Firs)''' | years=1869β1887}} {{s-non|reason=Extinct}} {{s-end}} {{Portal bar|United Kingdom|Biography}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Whitworth, Joseph}} [[Category:1803 births]] [[Category:1887 deaths]] [[Category:People from Stockport]] [[Category:19th-century English philanthropists]] [[Category:American Civil War industrialists]] [[Category:Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom]] [[Category:English mechanical engineers]] [[Category:Engineers from Lancashire]] [[Category:English inventors]] [[Category:Fellows of the Royal Society]] [[Category:Firearm designers]] [[Category:History of Greater Manchester]] [[Category:Machine tool builders]] [[Category:People associated with the University of Manchester]] [[Category:People of the Industrial Revolution]] [[Category:Bessemer Gold Medal]] [[Category:19th-century English businesspeople]] [[Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Arts]]
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