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Showing posts with label electronics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label electronics. Show all posts
Monday, September 7, 2026

Joseph, Harry and Oliver Lucas

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 Joseph Lucas was born in 1834, lived in Hockley, Birmingham and worked in tin, manufacturing lamps for ships and the new world of photograp...
Monday, August 31, 2026

Plessey father and sons

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 Allen Clark, son of Byron Clark, was born in Massachusetts in 1898 and came to England in 1905. He attended Felsted School. In the First Wo...
Monday, August 24, 2026

Marconi and notable successors

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Guglielmo Marconi, from Bolognia in Italy, at the age of 22, in 1898, set up Marconi Telegraph Company in a former mill in Chelmsford: the f...
Monday, August 17, 2026

The Ferranti Spirit

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Sebastian de Ferranti was born in Liverpool in 1864, the son of a photographer whose family had come from Bologna. Cesar had married Juliana...
Friday, December 12, 2025

West London manufacturing history

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 The twenties and in some cases earlier saw the establishment of the new motor and electrical industries on the periphery of London and near...
Wednesday, December 10, 2025

North London manufacturing history

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 As Inner London turned its attention more and more to finance and service industries, manufacturing moved north, much of it into the Lea Va...
Friday, December 5, 2025

Inner London manufacturing history 19th and 20th century

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 Inner London, having been for manufacturing a place where the many made things for the few, changed as technology advanced and became home ...
Thursday, December 4, 2025

South London manufacturing history 19th and 20th century

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 In his book, L ondon: A History , Francis Sheppard observes that ‘by the end of the eighteenth century, London had more steam engines than ...
Saturday, September 6, 2025

Edinburgh manufacturing history

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 The capital city of Scotland, with access to the sea at the port of Leith, had for centuries a closer relationship with the continent of Eu...