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Sir Arthur Percy Morris Fleming: Quick Facts

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Born January 16, 1881 • Newport • England
Died September 14, 1960 (aged 79)
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American physicist and radio engineer
Henry Bessemer
Henry Bessemer
English inventor and engineer
Richard Trevithick, detail of an oil painting by John Linnell, 1816; in the Science Museum, London.
Richard Trevithick
British engineer and inventor
George Stephenson
George Stephenson
English engineer and inventor
Frank Whittle
Sir Frank Whittle
British inventor and aviator
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Henry Joseph Round
British engineer and inventor
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John Kay
British engineer and inventor
John Ambrose Fleming.
Sir John Ambrose Fleming
British engineer
Thomas Savery's steam pump
Thomas Savery
British engineer and inventor
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British engineer and inventor
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Joseph Bramah
British inventor
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William Froude
British engineer
William George Armstrong, c. 1870
William George Armstrong, Baron Armstrong
British industrialist and engineer
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Samuel Hall
British engineer
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Sir Frederic Williams
British engineer
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Sir Daniel Gooch, 1st Baronet
British engineer
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Sir John Isaac Thornycroft
British architect and engineer
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Robert Whitehead
British engineer
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John Wyatt
English mechanic
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John Fowler
English engineer