Alexander Carnegie Kirk

Alexander Carnegie Kirk (16 July 1830 – 5 October 1892) was a British engineer responsible for several major innovations in the shipbuilding, refrigeration, and oil shale industries of the 19th century.

In 1861, he became chief draughtsman at Maudslay, Sons and Field in London but this seems to have lasted less than a year.

[4] During this employment he developed an oil shale retort and a refrigeration technology, involving the delivery of ether.

[1][2][5] In 1865 he joined the management of James Aitken and Company, an engine works in Glasgow.

After returning to the Napier firm as a senior partner in 1877, his work was thereafter focused on marine engineering.