Invented by Sir Charles Parsons.
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compound steam turbine
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Parsons Library
1854 - 1931 This library is dedicated to Sir Charles Parsons, scientist and ...
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Nature
Scientific Journal published by Macmillan's. Created by Norman Lockyer to 'provide cultivated readers with an accessible forum for reading about advances in scientific knowledge' The journal's name...
1 memorial
Sir William Crookes
Chemist, physicist and science journalist. Born 143 Regent Street, presumably in a residential apartment above his father's gentlemen's outfitters shop in the Nash-designed terraces. Worked on spec...
1 memorial
William Tegetmeier
Naturalist and journalist. Born William Bernhardt Tegetmeier at High Street, Colnbrook Buckinghamshire. A founding member of the Savage Club, and a writer and journalist. He befriended Charles Darw...
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Roger Bacon
Philosopher and Franciscan friar. Born Somerset.  An early proponent of the modern scientific method.  He studied at Oxford where there is a statue.
1 memorial
First traffic lights in world
Less than a month after the lights were installed the lamp blew up, seriously injuring the policeman who was operating it. See the IET and the Victorianist for two different takes on the story. 20...
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