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 automating the manufacture of cannon, projectiles and explosives used by the armed forces. Died at St Leonard's-on-Sea.
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Sir John Anderson
Engineering Heritage Award The Royal Arsenal 1671 to 1967 The Royal Arsenal p...
Believed to have assisted Fowler in his work on the Concise Oxford Dictionary. The Latin on the memorial, 'castigavit et emendavit', translates as “he corrected and improved“, which is quite an ac...
Chief Electrician on the RMS Titanic. A résumé of his life can be found on the Encyclopedia Titanica website.
HM Surveyor of Roads, 1690-1715. Not a poor man, he owned property in St Martin's-in-the-Fields, St James's and Dover.
See Brunel's Thames Tunnel.
Information about this company is difficult to come by. Andrew Behan found this image at Britain From Above where it is captioned "The James Crosby & Sons Ltd Works off Bridges Road, Ellesmere ...
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