Electrical engineer. born Yorkshire. Aged 11, enrolled as a naval cadet and arrived in the Crimea just as the war ended. He retired from the army to develop his engineering business interests. Pioneer of electric light. By 1900 he was back in the army and promoted to lieutenant-colonel. Keen cyclist and, along with Frederick Simms and others, founded the RAC. Died near Ripon.
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Colonel Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton
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Colonel Crompton
Colonel R. E. B. Crompton, 1845 - 1940, electrical engineer, lived and worked...
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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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Lydia Becker
President of NUWSS prior to Millicent Fawcett and campaigned for voting rights of unmarried women and widows. Also an amateur scientist with interests in biology and astronomy. Best remembered for ...
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2 memorials
Major-General William Roy
Military engineer, surveyor, antiquary. Born South Lanarkshire. Founder of the Ordnance Survey. 1749-55, one of a team that produced "The Duke of Cumberland's Map", commissioned by George II as ...
Person, Armed Forces, Engineering, History, Science, Scotland
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Television
See Londonist's excellent post How Television Was Invented In London. We love it when our friends do the work for us!
3 memorials