Background
WI LL M OT, Joseph William was born on April 13, 1849. Son of Joseph and Catharine Willmot.
WI LL M OT, Joseph William was born on April 13, 1849. Son of Joseph and Catharine Willmot.
Studied at Penley’s College, Westminster. Apprenticed to Engineering Branch of the Electric and International Telegraph Company, 1862.
Served under late Cromwell F. Varley, Engineer to the Company, and subsequently assisted late R. S. Culley, the first Engineer-in-Cliief to the Post Office, and his successors, the late Edward Graves and Sir William Preece, Companion of the Bath, Fellow of the Royal Society. Was engaged in developing the pneumatic tube system both in London and the principal towns in the United Kingdom. Numerous inventions and improvements in pneumatics and telegraphy have been introduced by him, among the former being a double sluice pneumatic valve, an intermediate signaller which has vastly increased the working capacity of pneumatic tubes, a quick-break electric light switch, an air-motor for driving telegraph instruments.
And the following in connection with the Wheatstone system of automatic telegraphy, viz.—a double pneumatic puncher, a hollow punch for perforators, a magnetic bias reverser, and a motor and train. Imperial Service Order; Controller of Factories, Postal Telegraphs.
Member of Institution of Civil Engineers.
Spouse 1872, Mary Ann Anderson.