Born Siberia. Earlier versions existed but in 1869 he published the first widely recognized periodic table of elements.
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Dmitri Mendeleev
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Dr Alphonse Normandy
Full name: Dr Alphonse Rene Le Mire de Normandy. Born Rouen, France. He completed a medical course but then devoted himself to chemistry. Came to England in the late 1830s/early 1840s, initially li...
Hugh Percival Wilkins
Amateur astronomer, mechanical engineer and civil servant. Born in Carmarthen, he was known as Hugh Percy. He was elected to the British Astronomical Association in 1918, and was director of its Lu...
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John Henry Silley OBE
John Henry Silley OBE was a marine engineer and businessman. Born Monmouthshire. First came to London in 1892 to go to sea in a steamer. Chairman and Managing Director of R. and H. Green and Sill...
Henry Doubleday
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Television
John Logie Baird demonstrated the world's first mechanical television system on 26 January 1926. See Londonist's excellent post How Television Was Invented In London. We love it when our friends d...

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