John Barber (1734–1801) was an English coalmaster and inventor. He was born in Nottinghamshire but moved to Warwickshire in the 1760s to manage collieries in the Nuneaton area. For a time he lived in Camp Hill House between Hartshill and Nuneaton and later lived in Attleborough. He patented several inventions between 1766 and 1792 of which the most remarkable was one for a gas turbine.
This page contains content from the copyrighted Wikipedia article "John Barber (engineer)"; that content is used under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.
