Joshua Routledge was an engineer and inventor of the early 19th century during the Industrial Revolution.
c.1820 by Unknown artist, displaying Routledge's Engineer's Rule and Patent Rotary Steam Engine
Benjamin Hick was an English civil and mechanical engineer, art collector and patron whose improvements to the steam engine and invention of scientific tools were held in high esteem by the engineerin
Joshua Routledge
…King about whom nothing more has been found, except that a daughter Ann (1803–1814) came from that union. A contemporary of Routledge by the name of Benjamin Hick (1787/90–1842) also received training at the Round Foundry, and the two ambitious young men left Leeds for greener pastures sometime around 1810. Both…
c.1840 by George Patten ARA (1801–1865)
"Steam-Engine Manufactory and Iron-Works, Bolton. To Messrs. Rothwell, Hick & Co. This plate is respectfully inscribed by the publishers. Fisher, Son and Co. of London 1832." Engraving by William Watkins after a drawing by John Harwood. Originally published in William Henry Pyne's partwork Lancashire Illustrated, from Original Drawings (1828–1831).
Technical drawing of a balance and low pressure steam engine by Rothwell, Hick and Rothwell with architectural details in the Doric order. Traité Théorique et pratique des moteurs a vapeur, Jacques-Eugène Armengaud 1862.
Engraving of Bolton New Market Place c.1859 with Benjamin Hick's centre piece gas light mounted on the form of a Neo-classical urn, complimented by John Hick's circular cattle fountain.