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...
Inventor and designer of engines. Born Kensington. He worked with Sebastian de Ferranti and the cinema pioneer William Friese-Greene to produce cameras, mutoscopes, cutting and perforation machine...
Built to provide steam for the pumping engines needed to keep the Thames Tunnel dry during its construction.
Engineer. Born at 19 Barron Street, Woodside, Aberdeen. On moving to London, he was seconded to the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich. Here he was responsible for many innovations, and for mechanising and au...
Pioneering aeronautical engineers. Oswald and Eustace formed a partnership in 1897, initially working on balloons. They supplied Charles Rolls, amongst others. In 1908 Horace joined, the company wa...
Civil Engineer, born Hacqueville, Normandy, France. Educated in France, but forced to flee to the United States after publicly predicting the demise of Robespierre. He submitted a design for the Ca...
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