# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-bridges-adams
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:26:59.773Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-bridges-adams"
name: "William Bridges Adams"
slug: "william-bridges-adams"
description: "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."
tagline: "Author, inventor, locomotive engineer (1797–1872)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1797"
deathDate: "1872-07-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.83
  momentum:             0.4347826086956523
  historical:           6.341973333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bridges_Adams"
    title: "William Bridges Adams"
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  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%AC%D8%B2_%D8%A2%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B2"
    title: "ويليام بريدجز آدامز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bridges_Adams"
    title: "William Bridges Adams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bridges_Adams"
    title: "William Bridges Adams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bridges_Adams"
    title: "William Bridges Adams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bridges_Adams"
    title: "William Bridges Adams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%90%D7%9D_%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%93%D7%92'%D7%A1_%D7%90%D7%93%D7%9E%D7%A1"
    title: "ויליאם ברידג'ס אדמס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2578132"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump