Julian B. Beecroft, 1940
Description
- Creator
- Marjorie Ruddy, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Negatives
- Description
- Black and white negative showing Julian B. Beecroft digging up a plant in his garden.
- Notes
- Julian Balfour Beecroft was born at Toronto on 19 March 1908. He came to Whitby in 1918 as a student.
Beecroft was an accomplished pianist who was invited to play with George Gershwin in New York when he lost three fingers in a woodworking accident.
He was an inventor for the remainder of his life, building boats, photography equipment, furniture, and metal forging machinery. He invited the first wire and tape voice recorders but failed the patent them.
In 1947, he set up a machine shop at his home on Mary St. E. There, he patented a hydraulic control system for the Avro Arrow Interceptor and many other inventions.
In 1978, he moved to Port Hope and again to Sharbot Lake in 1984. Beecroft died at Perth on 20 January 2008 and is burried at Union Cemetery, Port Hope. - Date of Original
- 1940
- Dimensions
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Width: 8 in
Height: 10 in
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Beecroft
- Local identifier
- 31-009-542
- Collection
- Whitby Online Historic Photograhps Collection
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.8800174588675 Longitude: -78.9423113757324
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- Creative Commons licence
[more details]- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian copyright law. No restrictions on use.
- Recommended Citation
- Julian B. Beecroft, 1940, Marjorie Ruddy, Whitby Archives, 31-009-542.
- Reproduction Notes
- Scanned from copy negative.
- Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
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