Edward Tyer
{{Short description|English railway engineer}}
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Edward Tyer (6 February 1830 - 25 December 1912) was an English railway engineer who developed the Tyer's Electric Train Tablet system widely used in the 19th and 20th centuries on single-track railways. He devised it after the Thorpe rail accident of 1874, which left 21 people dead.Derail: Why Trains Crash by Nicholas Faith, page 44, publ 2000 by Channel 4 books, {{ISBN|0-7522-7165-2}}.
He was also an astronomer.{{Cite web|url=http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/MNRAS/0074//0000280.000.html|title = 1914MNRAS..74R.280. Page 280}}
See also
- {{cite journal|title= Obituary: Edward Tyer |journal= Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers |publisher= Institution of Civil Engineers |date= 1914|volume= 195 |issue= 1914 |page= 379 |doi= 10.1680/imotp.1914.16820 |doi-access= free }}
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