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William Bridges Adams
Author, inventor, locomotive engineer (1797-1872) · Writers · Died at 75
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.
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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.
