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...
Surveyor, civil engineer, working with Brentford Council in 1909.
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Inventor of the world's first traffic lights. Engineer and railway manager from Nottingham.
Reconstructed & widened in 1969 replacing a 28 ft. wide cast iron bridge built in 1864.
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