Henry Beighton

Henry Beighton (about 1687 to 1743) was an English engineer and surveyor, born at Chilvers Coton near Nuneaton in Warwickshire. In 1717 he published an engraving of the Newcomen engine that Thomas Newcomen had erected at Griff in 1714, and in 1718 he erected one himself at Oxclose colliery at Washington, County Durham. By measuring the work done by the Griff engine he compiled a table of the quantity of water an engine with a six-foot stroke working at 16 strokes per minute could raise, which he published in The Ladies Diary. He also supplied illustrations of hydraulic machines, including an overshot mill, for Desaguliers Course of Experimental Philosophy.