Josiah Latimer Clark
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Josiah Latimer Clark FRS FRAS was an English electrical engineer, born in Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire.
Josiah Latimer Clark
The London Pneumatic Despatch Company was formed on 30 June 1859, to design, build and operate an underground railway system for the carrying of mail, parcels and light freight between locations in Lo
Josiah Latimer Clark
…for conveying letters or parcels between places by the pressure of air and vacuum," and later, in 1863, was concerned in the construction, by the London Pneumatic Despatch Company, of a tube between the London North-West District post office and Euston station, London. About the same period he was engaged in experimental researches…
Pneumatic Despatch Company vehicle
Testing at Battersea
First dispatch of mail bags through the pneumatic tube from the district office in Eversholt Street to Euston Station. Illustrated London News, 28 February 1863
Receipt for purchase of 18 shares in the Pneumatic Despatch Company at @ £1 each