John Baillie (10 May 1806 – 29 October 1859) was an English

mechanical engineer Mechanical may refer to: Machine * Machine (mechanical), a system of mechanisms that shape the actuator input to achieve a specific application of output forces and movement * Mechanical calculator, a device used to perform the basic operations of ...

who worked mainly in

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

and Germany. John Baillie was born in

Newcastle-upon-Tyne Newcastle upon Tyne ( RP: , ), or simply Newcastle, is a city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England. The city is located on the River Tyne's northern bank and forms the largest part of the Tyneside built-up area. Newcastle is als ...

, England, on 10 May 1806. He joined the Emperor Ferdinand Northern Railway (''Kaiser-Ferdinands-Nordbahn'' or ''KFNB'') in 1836 when the

locomotives A locomotive or engine is a rail transport vehicle that provides the motive power for a train. If a locomotive is capable of carrying a payload, it is usually rather referred to as a multiple unit, motor coach, railcar or power car; the u ...

ordered by the company from

George Stephenson George Stephenson (9 June 1781 – 12 August 1848) was a British civil engineer and mechanical engineer. Renowned as the "Father of Railways", Stephenson was considered by the Victorians a great example of diligent application and thirst for ...

arrived and instructed the Austrian staff of the KFNB on the locomotives. In 1839 he founded the ''Nordbahn'' workshop at

Floridsdorf Floridsdorf (; Central Bavarian: ''Fluridsduaf'') is the 21st district of Vienna (german: 21. Bezirk, Floridsdorf), located in the northern part of the city and comprising seven formerly independent communities: Floridsdorf, Donaufeld, Greater Jed ...

. In 1841 he took up a post with

Emil Kessler Emil Julius Carl Kessler (20 August 1813 - 16 March 1867) was a German businessman and founder of the Maschinenfabrik Esslingen ('Esslingen Engineering Works'). Biography Kessler was born in Baden-Baden, attended school there and later studied con ...

Karlsruhe Karlsruhe ( , , ; South Franconian: ''Kallsruh'') is the third-largest city of the German state (''Land'') of Baden-Württemberg after its capital of Stuttgart and Mannheim, and the 22nd-largest city in the nation, with 308,436 inhabitants. ...

, southern Germany, where he assisted Kessler in introducing his first steam locomotive, the '' Badenia''.http://gug.newsboter.de/details.php?id=48 as at 4 Mar 09 In 1845, he switched to the Hungarian Central Railway. In 1846 he invented the Baillie ''Schneckenfeder'', a type of coiled spring named after him, which was fitted to the buffers of railway vehicles. He died on 29 October 1859 in

Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST ...

, Austria.

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* :de:John Baillie (Eisenbahningenieur) 1806 births 1859 deaths Engineers from Tyne and Wear English railway mechanical engineers English expatriates in Austria English expatriates in Germany British railway pioneers People from Newcastle upon Tyne Engineers from Vienna 19th-century British engineers 19th-century British businesspeople {{England-engineer-stub

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