Matthew Murray
✓ Source-basedrisingBritish steam engine and machine tool engineer and manufacturer (1765-1826)
Lived 1765 to 1826 · aged 61
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Matthew Murray was an English steam engine and machine tool manufacturer, who designed and built the first commercially viable steam locomotive, the twin-cylinder Salamanca in 1812. He was an innovative designer in many fields, including steam engines, machine tools and machinery for the textile industry.
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![Technical drawing of a 4hp steam engine by Fenton, Murray & Wood, 1802. "Applied to a mill for grinding bark", by Joseph Wilson Lowry, after John Farey[3]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Fenton%2C_Murray_and_Wood_steam_engine.jpg/500px-Fenton%2C_Murray_and_Wood_steam_engine.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
Technical drawing of a 4hp steam engine by Fenton, Murray & Wood, 1802. "Applied to a mill for grinding bark", by Joseph Wilson Lowry, after John Farey[3]![The Collier, aquatint by Robert Havell after George Walker, published in 1814, from Costumes of Yorkshire, showing Blenkinsop's rack locomotive Salamanca on the Middleton Railway.[5] The image features the earliest known representation of a steam train.[6]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/The_Collier_%28crop%29.jpg/500px-The_Collier_%28crop%29.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
The Collier, aquatint by Robert Havell after George Walker, published in 1814, from Costumes of Yorkshire, showing Blenkinsop's rack locomotive Salamanca on the Middleton Railway.[5] The image features the earliest known representation of a steam train.[6]
A memorial to Matthew Murray in Holbeck, LeedsAbout this person
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Lived 1765 to 1826 · aged 61
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