Founded by a small group of clockmakers, whose aim was to unify the British horological industry and trades in the face of large numbers of imports of clocks and watches from abroad.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
British Horological Institute
George Daniels CBE, watchmaker, 1926 - 2011, lived & worked here. The Wor...
Civil engineer. Eight years working in Australia. Director of Highways and Transportation at the GLC 1964-67. President of the Institute of Civil Engineers in 1990. Died Devon.
Person, Engineering, Politics & Administration, Transport, Australia
Assistant to Frederick Bremer. He helped build the first British motor car with an internal combustion engine.
Used c.1709 - 1720 to pump water supplied via the New River from the round pond to the upper pond (now Claremont Square reservoir).
Londonist have a piece on this early manifestation of the car and steam locomotive, rolled into one.
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