Joseph Bramah born Stainborough Lane Farm, Wentworth

Wentworth, South Yorkshire

Wentworth is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham in South Yorkshire, England. It has a population of 1,223.- History :...

, Yorkshire

Yorkshire

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, England

England

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, was an inventor and locksmith. He is best known for having invented the hydraulic press

Hydraulic press

A hydraulic is a machine using a hydraulic cylinder to generate a compressive force. It uses the hydraulic equivalenta mechanical lever, and was also known as a Bramah press after the inventor, Joseph Bramah, of England. He invented and was issued a patent on this press in 1795...

. Along with William George Armstrong, he can be considered one of the two fathers of hydraulic engineering.
He was the second son in the family of three sons and two daughters of Joseph Bramma (note the different spelling of the surname), a farmer, and his wife, Mary Denton.