Thomas Sopwith (geologist)

Thomas Sopwith (geologist)

Thomas Sopwith (1803–1879) was an English mining engineer born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

He was a founder of the Mining Record Office in 1838. He became a railway surveyor and worked with George Stephenson and Sir William Cubitt creating the French railway network. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1845. Thomas Sopwith is credited with the first use of 3-dimensional geological models for practical demonstrations in 1841 [ TURNER S. and W. DEARMAN. THE EARLY HISTORY OF GEOLOGICAL MODELS. 1980. in: Bulletin of the International Association of Engineering, 21, 1980, Krefeld Geology http://www.springerlink.com/content/q750540p6p670q03/fulltext.pdf?page=1 ]

His son was a civil engineer and his grandson, also called Thomas Sopwith, founded the Sopwith Aviation Company

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