Person
Brennan, Louis (1852 - 1932)
- Born
- 28 January 1852
Castlebar, Ireland - Died
- 17 January 1932
Montreux, Switzerland - Occupation
- Mechanical engineer and Inventor
Summary
Louis Brennan invented a torpedo propelled by counter-rotating screws, a monorail locomotive with gyroscopic stabilisers and a helicopter.
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Chronology
- 1861
- Life event - Arrived in Melbourne, Australia
- 1874
- Career event - Invented the Brennan Torpedo
- 1880
- Life event - Arrived in England
- 1887
- Award - £110,000 from the British War Office for the Brennan Torpedo
- 1887
- Patent - Brennan Torpedo
- 1887 - 1896
- Career position - Superintendent, Government Brennan Torpedo Factory, Gillingham, Kent, England
- 1896 - 1907
- Career position - Consulting Engineer, Government Brennan Torpedo Factory, Gillingham, Kent, England
- 1906
- Award - Honorary Member, Royal Engineers Institute, England
- 1907
- Career event - Invented a monorail locomotive with gyroscopic stabilisers
- 1914 - 1918
- Career position - Ministry of Munitions, England
- 1919 - 1926
- Career position - Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, England
- 1922
- Career position - Foundation Member, National Academy of Ireland
Published resources
Book Sections
- Sandow, Mary, 'Brennan, Louis (1852-1932)' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Douglas Pike, ed., vol. 3 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1969), pp. 223-224. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A030208b.htm. Details
Conference Papers
- Beauchamp, David, 'The world's first guided missile: A Victorian invention', in From the Past to the Future: 18th Australian Engineering Heritage Conference 2015 [Newcastle] (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Engineers Australia, 2015), pp. 62-71., https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.696560494961022. Details
Edited Books
- Chrimes, M. M.; Cox, R. C.; Cross-Rudkin, P. S. M.; Elton, J. M. H.; Hurst, B. L.; McWilliam, R. C.; Rennison, R. W.; Sutherland, R. J. M.; Thomas, R. E. ed., Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 3: 1890-1920 (London, United Kingdom: Thomas Telford Publishing, 2014), 775 pp. 'Brennan, Louis Philip, CB', p.89. Details
Journal Articles
- Brennan, Louis, 'Monorail railways (Letter & Discussion)', Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Engineers vol. VIII (1908), 127-130. http://hdl.handle.net/11343/24399. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1871553. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/70889988. Details
- 'Brennan, Louis (1852-1932)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1469676. Details
See also
- Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_b.html. Details
- Beauchamp, David, 'The World's First Successful Guided Missile', in Engineering Heritage Victoria, Speakers Programme (2016)., https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/Event/worlds-first-successful-guided-missile-david-beauchamp. Details
- Engineers Australia ed., Wonders never cease: 100 Australian engineering achievements (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Institution of Engineers, Australia, 2019), 236 pp. pp.176-177. Details
- Serle, Percival, Dictionary of Australian biography (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1949). Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 10 January 2020
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