Walter Hancock
✓ Source-basedrisingBritish inventor of steam-powered road vehicles (1799-1852)
Walter Hancock was an English inventor of the Victorian period. He is chiefly remembered for his steam-powered road vehicles, but also received a patent for preparing and cutting natural rubber into sheets.
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1831 satire on steam coaches![Hancock's steam omnibus Autopsy of 1833, which ran on a regular route between Pentonville and Finsbury Square, London.[1]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/PSM_V57_D418_Steam_ominubus_made_by_hancock.png/500px-PSM_V57_D418_Steam_ominubus_made_by_hancock.png)
Hancock's steam omnibus Autopsy of 1833, which ran on a regular route between Pentonville and Finsbury Square, London.[1]
Cross Section of Hancock's Improved Infant of 1831
The Enterprise
'Automaton' steam omnibus
Walter Hancock's Steam Phaeton of 1838
Blue plaque at no.4 High Street, Marlborough for Walter and elder brother ThomasScientists born in the 1790s 6
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Walter Hancock was an English inventor of the Victorian period. He is chiefly remembered for his steam-powered road vehicles, but also received a patent for preparing and cutting natural rubber into sheets. He was the younger brother of Thomas Hancock, the inventor of rubber mastication who is also claimed by some to be the inventor of rubber vulcanization.
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