Scientist and engineer. Designed marine turbines.
Born 13 Connaught Place, Hyde Park into an aristocratic family. Died on board the liner The Duchess of Richmond, after taking ill in Jamaica.
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Sir Charles Parsons
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Parsons Library
1854 - 1931 This library is dedicated to Sir Charles Parsons, scientist and ...
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Sir John Fowler
Civil engineer. Born in Wadsley, Sheffield. Fowler's was a long and eminent career, spanning most of the 19th century's railway expansion, and he was engineer, adviser or consultant to many British...
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Sir Nigel Gresley
Locomotive engineer. Born Edinburgh into a family that arrived with William the Conqueror and were granted a hereditary baronetcy in the early 17th century. Raised in Derbyshire. Rapidly rose from ...
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London steam carriage
Londonist have a piece on this early manifestation of the car and steam locomotive, rolled into one.
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