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1929: Dr Daniel Adamson
Dr Daniel Adamson (1869-1930)
44th President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Adamson was born in Hyde, England in 1869. He began an apprenticeship at the age of 16, attending evening classes at the Manchester School of Technology at the same time. His apprenticeship was divided between the works of Scott and Hodgson of Guide Bridge and Joseph Adamson and Company of Hyde, which had been founded by his father in 1874.
In 1893 he was promoted to works manager, and in 1904 he and his brother Harold entered into a partnership with their father. In 1925 Daniel became sole proprietor of the firm.
Adamson was a pioneer in the development of the electric crane. After a visit to the United States in 1893, the firm commenced the building of electric cranes by constructing one of the first three-motor overhead cranes in the country.
He died in 1930.
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