Prosser, Richard Bissell (1838–1918), patent examiner and historian of technology, was born at the Chunk Works, in Coventry Road, Aston, Warwickshire, on 25 August 1838, the second child of Richard Prosser (1804–1854), engineer and inventor, and his first wife, Sarah Potter (1814–1848). By May 1840 the family had moved into ...
