Edward Tyer (6 February 1830 - 25 December 1912) was an English railway engineer who developed the Tyer's Electric Train Tablet system widely used in the 19th and 20th centuries on single-track railways. He devised it after the Thorpe rail accident of 1874, which left 21 people dead.[1]

He was also an astronomer.[2]

See also

  • "Obituary: Edward Tyer". Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Institution of Civil Engineers. 195 (1914): 379. 1914. doi:10.1680/imotp.1914.16820.

References

  1. ↑ Derail: Why Trains Crash by Nicholas Faith, page 44, publ 2000 by Channel 4 books, ISBN 0-7522-7165-2.
  2. ↑ "1914MNRAS..74R.280. Page 280".

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