Hancock, Walter (1799–1852), engineer and inventor of steam carriages, was born on 16 June 1799, the sixth son of James Hancock, a timber merchant and cabinet-maker at Marlborough, Wiltshire. Thomas Hancock (1786–1865), who developed the manufacture of rubber, was his brother. After serving an apprenticeship to a watchmaker and jeweller in ...
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Hancock, Walter (1799–1852), engineer and inventor of steam carriages
R. B. Prosser
revised by Ralph Harrington
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Hancock, Walter (1799–1852)
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Walter Hancock (1799–1852) by R. Roffe, pubd 1836 (after Charles Hancock) © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Johnston, George (1855–1945), engineer
Michael S. Moss
Johnston, George (1855–1945), engineer, was born at West Linton, Peebleshire, on 3 August 1855, the third child of James Aitchison Johnston, the United Presbyterian minister of West Linton, and his wife, Janet, née Fulton. His mother came from Glasgow and in 1861 his father accepted the call to be minister of the congregation at ...
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Lanchester, George Herbert (1874–1970), engineer and car designer
C. S. Clark
Lanchester, George Herbert (1874–1970), engineer and car designer, was born on 11 December 1874 at 1 St John's Terrace, Hove, Sussex, the youngest of eight children of Henry Jones Lanchester (1834–1914), architect, surveyor, and part-time inventor, and his wife, Octavia, née Ward (1834–1916)...
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Lanchester, George Herbert (1874–1970)
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George Herbert Lanchester (1874–1970) by unknown photographer © reserved; photograph National Portrait Gallery, London
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Pedersen, Mikael (1855–1929), engineer and designer of bicycles
David E. Evans
Pedersen, Mikael (1855–1929), engineer and designer of bicycles, was born on 25 October 1855 at Marbjerg, near Roskilde in Denmark, the eldest of six children of Peder Hansen, farmer, and his wife, Karen Mathiasdatter. His parents were both Danish.
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Royce, Sir (Frederick) Henry, baronet (1863–1933), engineer and motor car designer
David J. Jeremy
Royce, Sir (Frederick) Henry, baronet (1863–1933), engineer and motor car designer, was born on 27 March 1863 at Alwalton, near Peterborough, youngest of the two boys and three girls of James Royce (1830–1872), flour miller, and his wife, Mary (d. 1904), third daughter of ...
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Royce, Sir (Frederick) Henry, baronet (1863–1933)
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Sir (Frederick) Henry Royce, baronet (1863–1933) by Peter North Royal Aeronautical Society Library
