William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong
William George Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, was an English engineer and industrialist who founded the Armstrong Whitworth manufacturing concern on Tyneside. He was also an eminent scientist, inventor and philanthropist. In collaboration with the architect Richard Norman Shaw, he built Cragside in Northumberland, the first house in the world to be lit by hydroelectricity. He is regarded as the inventor of modern artillery.
William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong
Armstrong hydraulic jigger winch of 1888
Grimsby Dock Tower
Armstrong gun deployed by Japan during the Boshin war (1868–69).
Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd was a major British manufacturing company of the early years of the 20th century. With headquarters in Elswick, Newcastle upon Tyne, Armstrong Whitworth built armaments, ships, locomotives, automobiles and aircraft.
Armstrong Whitworth
Metropolitan Railway K Class 2-6-4T locomotive
Works plate on Armstrong Whitworth-built LMS Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 45305 showing completion in 1936
Brazil Navy ship Bahia