Edward Tyer
Edward Tyer (6 February 1830 - 25 December 1912) was an English railway engineer who developed the Tyer's Electric Train Tablet system widely used in the 19th and 20th centuries on single-track railways. He devised it after the Thorpe rail accident of 1874, which left 21 people dead. He was also an astronomer. See also

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 (Edward Tyer on Luxembourgish Wikipedia)

1830 births
1912 deaths
British railway pioneers
English electrical engineers
British railway civil engineers
19th-century British engineers
British astronomers