to the Ruston and Hornsby history. History of his Oil Engine at the Anson Engine Museum De La Vergne Oil Engine used for Marconi's first broadcast IMechE Herbert Akroyd Prize (sic) Immortalised by naming a range of bollards after him All Souls Church, Halifax Patents US Patent 845140 Combustion Engine, dated 26 February 1907. US Patent 502837 Engine operated by the explosion of mixtures of gas or hydrocarbon vapor and air, dated 8 August 1893. US Patent 439702 Petroleum Engine or Motor, dated 4 November 1890. 1864 births 1927 deaths British mechanical engineers Stationary engines People associated with the internal combustion engine People from Halifax, West Yorkshire Academics of the University of Nottingham People educated at St. Bartholomew's School