Plumbe (surname)
Plumbe is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *John Plumbe (1809–1857), Welsh-born American photographer *Rowland Plumbe (1838–1919), English architect See also *Plume (other) *Plumb (surname) The surname Plumb may refer to: * Caroline Plumb (born 1978), British businesswoman * Dick Plumb (born 1946), English footballer * Edward H. Plumb (1907–1958), American film composer *Eve Plumb (born 1958), American actress and painter *Gwen Plumb ...

John Plumbe
John Plumbe Jr. (occasionally Plumb; July 13, 1809 – May 29, 1857) was a Welsh-born American entrepreneurial photographer, gallerist, publisher, and an early advocate of an American transcontinental railroad in the mid-19th century. He established a franchise of photography studios in the 1840s in the U.S., with additional branches in Paris and Liverpool. He created a lithographic process for reproducing photographic images, called the "plumbeotype." Biography Plumbe was born in Castle Caereinion, Powys, Wales in 1809, to John Plumbe and Frances Margaretta Atherton. The family moved to Philipsburg, Pennsylvania in 1821, and later to Dubuque, Iowa. Vision for a transcontinental railroad He began his career as a civil engineer. "He studied civil engineering while still in his late teens and by 1829 was surveying sites for future railroad routes in the southern and eastern portions of the country. About 1836 he relocated to the Wisconsin territory, where he became and advocate ...
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Rowland Plumbe
Rowland Plumbe, also known as Roland Plumbe (2 February 1838, Whitechapel – 2 April 1919, Willesden), was an English architect, famous for being the author of many residential schemes across London, many being considered the first examples of the Victorian Garden City. Biography Plumbe was born on 2 February 1838 in Whitechapel. After leaving university college he was articled to Nockalls Johnson Cottingham and Frederick Peek, then spent 2 years in America with Frederick Clarke Withers, returning to London in 1860 to start his own practice. Over a long career he designed a wide variety of buildings including churches, hospitals and housing, from the modest to the grand. His churches include the red-brick Perpendicular Gothic Revival St John the Baptist's Church at Loxwood, West Sussex and red brick Grade II listed St Margaret, Streatham Hill. Hospitals designed by Plumbe include thirty years of work on the London Hospital, new wings at Poplar Hospital between 1891 and 1902 ...
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Plume (other)
Plume or plumes may refer to: Science * Plume (feather), a prominent bird feather * Plume (fluid dynamics), a column consisting of one fluid moving through another fluid * Eruption plume, a column of volcanic ash and gas emitted into the atmosphere during an eruption * Mantle plume, an upwelling of hot rock within the Earth's mantle that can cause volcanic hotspots * Moisture plume, an alternative name for a atmospheric river, a narrow corridor of concentrated moisture in the atmosphere * Plumage, the layer of feathers that cover a bird Media and literature * "Plume" (Air episode), a 2005 episode of the Japanese anime ''Air'' * '' Plume'', a 2006 album by Loscil * ''Plumes'' (play), a 1927 one-act play by Georgia Douglas Johnson * ''Plume'' (poetry collection), a 2012 book by Kathleen Flenniken * Plume (publisher), an American book publishing company * ''Plumes'', a 1924 novel by Laurence Stallings * A song by The Smashing Pumpkins on their 1994 album '' Pisces Iscari ...
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