Beattie was a highly innovative engineer, introducing the country's first successful 2-4-0 locomotive, pioneering feedwater heating, balanced slide valves and coal-burning fireboxes.
William George Beattie, locomotive engineer, was the son of Joseph Hamilton Beattie.
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