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Born April 22, 1789 • Wales
Died March 16, 1864 (aged 74) • Manchester • England
Inventions gas meter

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Thomas Blanchard
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Richard Trevithick, detail of an oil painting by John Linnell, 1816; in the Science Museum, London.
Richard Trevithick
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Tim Berners-Lee
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George Cayley, detail of an oil painting by Henry Perronet Briggs, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir George Cayley
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John Frederic Daniell, undated engraving
John Frederic Daniell
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Sir Richard Arkwright
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Sir James Dewar
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Nicholson, William
William Nicholson
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Charles Wheatstone
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Thomas Godfrey
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Sir William Fothergill Cooke
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Edward Davy
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William Radcliffe
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Thomas Edison
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Galileo
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Alexander Graham Bell
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