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Barlow-Greathead-Beach shield design controversy

W. C. Copperthwaite was Greathead's pupil and wrote a definitive exposition on each of the above named engineers' contributions to tunnelling shield design published in 1906 at New York. A copy of which is available from the Institution of Civil Engineers in London.

A long controversy has raged over who invented the cylindrical shield since 1869, making it a bicentennial-long conjecture. It is flat that Barlow came up with the idea first but never built it. Whilst it has been proven that Greathead designed, patented and built the first cylindrical tunnelling shield, it was not of Barlow's design or input. This became clear to me on 10 July 2018 when I spoke to the librarian at the institution of Civil Engineers in London who clarified the facts according to the minutes of a meeting of the engineers on 19 November 1895 in which the chairman asked Greathead of he was aware that the late Barlow had had a provisional patent that closely resembled Greathead's patented idea. It turned out that Greathead had no idea of the 1868 provisional patent or of the 1864 patent of his school master. I have a substantial collection of notes and the minutes of that meeting which I am collating. Hopefully ICE will allow this copyright material to be partially shown to clarify the evidence of who built the first cylindrical shield. Simultaneously, Alfred Ely Beach designed a shield of his own and built it in New York around the same time as Greathead built his in London. Beach's design was very similar to Barlow's 1864 patent. For historical accuracy, there was never a Barlow-Greathead shield since they came up with their own patents meaning differently designed enough to warrant not being the same. Ashattock (talk) 01:08, 11 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]