Founded by a small group of clockmakers, whose aim was to unify the British horological industry and trades in the face of large numbers of imports of clocks and watches from abroad.
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British Horological Institute
George Daniels CBE, watchmaker, 1926 - 2011, lived & worked here. The Wor...
Engineer and builder. One of the early innovators with reinforced concrete initially in Brussels. In 1892, he patented a reinforced-concrete construction system. The first building erected using th...
Civil engineer. Born 27 Stamford Street. In London, worked on Waterloo, Southwark and London Bridges. President of the Institute of Civil Engineers, 1845-8. Died at Bengeo, near Hertford. Easy to...
Resident engineer on the construction of the Rotherhithe Tunnel in 1908.
Inventor of the world's first traffic lights. Engineer and railway manager from Nottingham.
Architect, engineer and surveyor. Born in Beccles, Suffolk. His works include two Ealing Town Halls: the current one and the previous one, now (2024) NatWest bank at 1a The Mall, Ealing, and severa...
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