Electrical engineer and social reformer promoting family planning and eugenics. Born in Paris. As an engineer, he invented the phase-shifting transformer, and was co-founder of the Institute of Physics. In 1921 he opened one of the first birth control clinics in Britain, and co-founded the Family Planning Association in 1930.
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Dr Charles Vickery Drysdale
Dr Charles Vickery Drysdale, 1874 - 1961, a founder of the Family Planning As...
Junior Assistant 4th Engineer on the RMS Titanic. A full résumé of his life can be found on the Encyclopedia Titanica website. He is also commemorated on the Engineers Memorial, Andrews East Park,...
Construction company with origins in the Netherlands.
Inventor. Born in Mill Village, Nova Scotia. While working for the Central and South American Telegraph and Cable Company he became tired of using hand-operated machines to send messages. He came u...
Civil engineer. Born in Leeds. Moved to London in 1850. He worked on canals and railways around the world, and was involved with the proposed channel tunnel of 1872. His best known construction is ...
Contractors' engineer on the construction of the Rotherhithe Tunnel in 1908.
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