Richard Dudgeon

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Richard Dudgeon (1819, Tain – 9 April 1895, New York City)Willi H. Hager, [https://books.google.com/books?id=EAVCCwAAQBAJ&q=Dudgeon&pg=PA1988 Dudgeon], in Hydraulicians in the USA 1800-2000: A biographical dictionary of leaders in hydraulic engineering and fluid mechanics, CRC Press, 2015. Page 1989 was a mechanic, noted for his inventions of the hydraulic jack and steam carriage. Born in Scotland,{{citation |journal=Motor Trend |volume=37 |author=Walter A. Woron |year=1985 |quote=Richard Dudgeon was born near Edinburgh in 1819, the youngest son of a father with emigration fever}} he emigrated as a boy with his family to the United States, where he became a mechanic in New York. He founded an engineering machine shop on Broome Street and this prospered, so that he was able to live well nearby and have a country estate in Harlem.{{citation |title=The golden earth: the story of Manhattan's landed wealth |author=Arthur Pound |page=207 |publisher=Ayer Publishing |year=1975 |isbn=978-0-405-06931-4}} The business still exists as Richard Dudgeon, Inc.{{citation |url=http://www.dudgeonjacks.com/ |title=Richard Dudgeon, Inc. |date=December 2009}}