Born Greenock. Engineer. Worked with steam engines, devising a separate condenser which greatly improved efficiency. The watt unit of power was named for him.
Died Handsworth, Staffordshire.
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James Watt
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1 memorial
Rotherhithe Tunnel Airshaft
The building contains a staircase down to the tunnel and pedestrian footpath. The photograph is of this airshaft's partner on the north bank.
1 memorial
Edward Willis
From Historic England: Engineer and architect to the Chiswick Urban District Council in 1921. Also designed the Memorial Fund's Chiswick War Memorial Rest Homes, Burlington Lane. Housing disabled s...
2 memorials
Sir Ambrose Fleming
Electrical engineer. Born John Ambrose Fleming in a house named Greenfield in Lancaster. Best known for inventing the first thermionic valve or vacuum tube. He was also an accomplished photographer...
1 memorial
Frederick Winsor
Gas engineer. Born Friedrich Albrecht Winzer (Anglicised as Frederick Albert Winsor) in Brunswick, Germany. He studied the technology of gas street lighting in Paris. In London he founded the Gas L...
1 memorial
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Miss Rose
SW3, Old Church Street, 133
Miss Rose 1966 Quae in hac æde regnabat et nunc et æternum regnat in cordibus nostrum. {Latin: She ruled in this house and rules now an...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Alan Neve
WC2, High Holborn
Three cyclists killed in London in 3 weeks. This was the second protest ride we had attended in 5 days. Even more cyclists at this on...
2 subjects commemorated
W. L. Sutton
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
1 memorial
1 memorial
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