Charles Bowen Cooke
(1859-1920)
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Charles John Bowen Cooke CBE (11 January 1859 – 18 October 1920) was born in Orton Longueville (then in Huntingdonshire) and was Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the London and North Western Railway (LNWR). He was the first to add superheating to the locomotives of the railway. He wrote a book called British locomotives: their history, construction; and modern development which was published in 1893, with a second edition in 1894, and third in 1899 A second book, Developments in Locomotive Practice followed in 1902.
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11 January 1859 Orton Longueville, Huntingdonshire, England
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18 October 1920 (aged 61) Falmouth, Cornwall, England
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