# William Bridges Adams

> William Bridges Adams was an English locomotive engineer, and writer. He is best known for his patented Adams axle – a successful radial axle design in use on railways in Britain until the end of steam traction in 1968 – and the railway fishplate. His writings, including English Pleasure Carriages (1837) and Roads and Rails (1862) covered all forms of land transport. Later he became a noted writer on political reform, under the pen name Junius Redivivus ; a reference to a political letter writer of the previous century.

*Author, inventor, locomotive engineer (1797–1872)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Journalist
- **Category:** Journalists
- **Born:** 1797
- **Died:** 1872-07-23
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

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## Fame
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