PERKINS

Angier March (2 son of Jacob Perkins, civil engineer). b. Newbury Port, Ma achusetts 1799; came to England 1827; a isted his father to perfect his method of engraving bank-notes and of using steam under very high pre ure; introduced a method of warming buildings by means of hot water circulating through small closed pipes, carried on a large busine with his son in Harpur st. and then at 43 Regent’s sq. Gray’s inn road, London; took out a patent for the manufacture of iron by the use of superheated steam 1843; took out a patent for heating bakers’ ovens 1851, and another for railway axles and boxes 1851; A.I.C.E. May 1840; author with G. W. Fitch of A manual of geographical names 1852. d. 22 April 1881. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxvii 417–9 (1882).