John Baillie (railway engineer)
John Baillie (10 May 1806 โ 29 October 1859) was an English
mechanical engineer who worked mainly in Austria
and Germany.
John Baillie was born in
locomotives ordered by the company from George Stephenson
arrived and instructed the Austrian staff of the KFNB on the locomotives.
In 1839 he founded the Nordbahn workshop at
Badenia.[1]
In 1845, he switched to the Hungarian Central Railway. In 1846 he invented the Baillie Schneckenfeder, a type of coiled spring named after him, which was fitted to the buffers of railway vehicles.
He died on 29 October 1859 in Vienna, Austria.
See also
References
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