Eimer 647.
52mm. Silver. By W.Wyon.
Conjoined busts of Mercury & Minerva with Arts And Commerce Promoted overhead. Reverse engraved 'To Mr P.W Barlow MDCCCXXIV - For A Perspective Drawing Of A Transit Theodolite'.
About Extremely Fine and scarce.
Peter W. Barlow (1 February 1809 – 19 May 1885), was an English civil engineer, particularly associated with railways, bridges (he designed the first Lambeth Bridge, a crossing of the River Thames in London), the design of tunnels and the development of tunnelling techniques. In 1864 he patented a design for a cylindrical tunnelling shield, and obtained a provisional patent in 1868 for an improved design.
Barlow as born at Woolwich, the son of an engineer and mathematician, professor Peter Barlow of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. Privately educated, winning a Royal Society of Arts medal in 1824 for his drawing of a transit theodolite; he then became a pupil of the civil engineer, Henry Robinson Palmer whom was a founder member of the Institution of Civil Engineers – of which Barlow became an Associate Member in 1826. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in November 1845 as someone who was "Distinguished for his acquaintance with the science of Mathematics as applied to Engineering Subjects".
From 1859 to 1867, Barlow lived at No 8 The Paragon, Blackheath, London. He died at 56 Lansdowne Road, Notting Hill, and is buried in the Kensal Green Cemetery, London. At the time of his death he was the oldest member of the Institution of Civil Engineers.