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Josiah Wedgwood.

Josiah Wedgwood

English craftsman

John Frederic Daniell, undated engraving

John Frederic Daniell

British chemist

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Sir William Chandler Roberts-Austen

British metallurgist

barometer. Antique Barometer with readout. Technology measurement, mathematics, measure atmospheric pressure

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