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Frederick Winsor

Gas engineer. Born Friedrich Albrecht Winzer (Anglicised as Frederick Albert Winsor) in Brunswick, Germany. He studied the technology of gas street lighting in Paris. In London he founded the Gas L...

Person, Engineering, France, Germany

James Fraser

Junior Assistant 3rd Engineer on the RMS Titanic. A full résumé of his life can be found on the Encyclopedia Titanica website.  He is also commemorated on the Engineers Memorial, Andrews East Park...

Person, Engineering, Tragedy, Scotland

Osborne Reynolds

Professor of engineering.  FRS.  Born Belfast.  Aged 25 he was appointed professor of engineering (one of the first to be appointed to such a post in the UK) in Owens College, Manchester.  He remai...

Person, Education, Engineering, Ireland

Official opening of High-Speed 1 and St Pancras International

Event, Architecture, Engineering, Belgium, France

Sir Alfred Seale Haslam

Engineer and politician.  Born Derby.  He saw the potential of refrigeration and developed equipment that was used extensively both on land and on ships.  Knighted by Queen Victoria in 1891 he fund...

Person, Benefactor, Engineering, Politics & Administration