Mornington Crescent, anyone?

[arceye]

Ok, I don't think he really fits, but Matthew Murray started out as blacksmith, died about the right time, he invented a planing machine.

Not he are you?

[arceye]

Well, I know I just posted, but I'm assuming your not Murray......

But I do think you are ........

Henry Maudslay?

He had alsorts to do with lathes, taps dies, thread cutting (screwing around?) and had connections to the Brunels via the Portsmouth Block Mills, the engine in the SS Great Western, and the Thames Tunnel

[zipgun]

Old Henry Maudsley was I ! Why wasn't i as famous as Brunell or Whitworth ? I trained Whitworth...
you're IT !

[arceye]

Ok then,

I shall be B

Male

Dead

Foreign

[JPB]

Hello B, were you by any chance a philanthropist who - when he wasn't throwing his cash at young prostitutes - invented a clever device that spared humankind many hours of toil and the risk of premature death in deep mines the whole world over?

[arceye]

Well John, that B sounds pretty cool, but no I was not.

[Phil P]

Are you connected with transport?

[arceye]

Yes I am

[JPB]

Are/were you connected with flying machines? Actually, I'm going to have a guess here since there's a name in my head and I'd kick myself if I didn't give it a run:

Are you William E Boeing?

[arceye]

I'm afraid not on both counts, though I was involved with some machines that could be said to "fly" metaphorically speaking.