Jeremiah Head

Jeremiah Head (11 July 1835 Ipswich – 10 March 1899 Hastings) was a British mechanical engineer.

He was apprenticed in 1852 at the works of Robert Stephenson and Co, Newcastle upon Tyne.

He was manager of the Steam Plough Works of John Fowler and Co in Leeds, where he invented a means of signalling by lamps to facilitate steam-ploughing at night.

He introduced a plan of profit-sharing with his workmen; no labour disputes arose.

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