Invented by Sir Charles Parsons.
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compound steam turbine
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Parsons Library
1854 - 1931 This library is dedicated to Sir Charles Parsons, scientist and ...
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Greenwich Meridian
A prime meridian. Established by Sir George Airy. By 1884, over two-thirds of all ships and tonnage used it as the reference meridian on their charts and maps. In October of that year, 41 delegates...
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Sir John Lubbock
Banker, politician and scientific writer. Born at 29 Eaton Place. He went into his father's banking business at the age of 14 and became a partner in 1856. Entered parliament in 1870, and succeeded...
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John Logie Baird
Born in "The Lodge" in Helensburgh, near Glasgow. Inventor of mechanical television. Picture of him demonstrating a prototype at Selfridges, 1925. Died in Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex.
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Hertha Ayrton
Electrical engineer and suffragist. Born Phoebe Sarah Marks in Portsmouth. Aged 16 began teaching in London. Studied maths at Girton College Cambridge. Married William Ayrton in 1885. Elected ...
1 memorial
Sir Norman Lockyer
Astronomer and journal editor, born at Rugby. In 1865 Lockyer and his family moved to a house (no longer extant) near Swiss Cottage. Here, using a special spectroscope to examine the sun, he discov...
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Philip Logan
Philip Paul Logan was the eldest of the three children of John W. Logan and Joan M. Logan née Guthrie. His birth was registered in the 1st quarter of 1964 in the Croydon registration district. His ...
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War dead, WW1
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War dead, WW2
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War dead, WW1
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