Inventor of the world's first traffic lights. Engineer and railway manager from Nottingham.
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John Peake Knight
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Peake Knight, 1st traffic lights
City of Westminster John Peake Knight, 1828 - 86, inventor of the world's fi...
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Greenwich Foot Tunnel
Pedestrian tunnel under the Thames designed by Sir Alexander Binnie, linking Greenwich town centre in the south with Island Gardens Park in the north. It is 1,215 feet (370.2 m) long and 50 feet (1...
3 memorials
Maxim Gun
The first portable automatic machine gun. In the 1888 photograph the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) is firing with Maxim standing behind.
1 memorial
John Alfred Prestwich
Inventor and designer of engines. Born Kensington.  He worked with Sebastian de Ferranti and the cinema pioneer William Friese-Greene to produce cameras, mutoscopes, cutting and perforation machine...
1 memorial
Cullinan Studio
From their website: "Edward Cullinan Architects was established by Edward (Ted) Cullinan in 1965, who was an early proponent of sustainability and social awareness and a former colleague of Denys L...
1 memorial
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