Inventor, industrial archaeologist, leading figure in patent reform and the first clerk to the commissioners of patents. Born Lancashire. Appointed professor of machinery at University College London in 1847. Much of the collection of early industrial devices at the South Kensington Museum (now the V&A) is due to him.
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Bennet Woodcroft
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Bennet Woodcroft keystone
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LEO Computers Society
From the Picture source: "This is the site of the LEO Computers Society celebrating the World's first business computer. Membership of the Society is open to: all ex-employees of LEO Computers and ...
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Future Fund of the Republic of Austria
Subsidises projects which foster tolerance and mutual understanding of the sufferings caused by the Nazi regime on the territory of present-day Austria. Keeping alive the memory of the victims as a...
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George Grote, DCL, LLD
George Grote was born on 17 November 1794 ,in Clay Hall, Beckenham, Kent (now Greater London), the eldest son of George Grote (1762-1830) and Salina Mary Grote née Peckwell (1775-1845). On 27 Decem...
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War dead, WW1
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Silvertown residents killed in explosion
58 local residents were killed and many more were injured in the Silvertown Explosion. We are not aware of any public memorial listing the names of the 58 residents who were killed. From Newham Re...
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War dead, WW1
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Holy Trinity Church - SW7
SW7, Prince Consort Road
The plaque does not make it clear that the early history all took place at another site; there was no church or chapel on this site until...
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