Beauchamp Tower

Beauchamp Tower (13 January 1845 – 31 December 1904) was an English inventor and railway engineer who is chiefly known for his discovery of full-film or hydrodynamic lubrication.

He decided at the age of 16 that he wanted to become an engineer and received early training at the Armstrong Works at Elswick, where he stayed for a few months as a draughtsman after completing his four-year apprenticeship.

Beauchamp Tower held several patents regarding an apparatus for maintaining a constant plane in a floating vessel.

[5][6] Tower's work on lubrication influenced many other engineers, including Osborne Reynolds, who acknowledged Tower in his 1886 paper on lubrication and the viscosity of olive oil.

[7] Lord Kelvin credited Tower with the idea of a chain and pulleys as part of his Tide-predicting machine.