Sir Henry Christopher Mance: Facts & Related Content

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Born 1840 • LondonEngland
Died April 21, 1926 (aged 86) • OxfordEngland
Inventions heliograph

Richard Trevithick, detail of an oil painting by John Linnell, 1816; in the Science Museum, London.
Richard Trevithick
English engineer
Thomas Newcomen
British engineer and inventor
Sir Christopher Cockerell
British inventor
Robert William Thomson, Scottish inventor; engraving after a photograph, 1873.
Robert William Thomson
Scottish engineer and entrepreneur
Lionel Lukin
British engineer
George Stephenson
George Stephenson
British inventor
Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage
British inventor and mathematician
Frank Whittle
Sir Frank Whittle
British inventor and aviator
George Cayley, detail of an oil painting by Henry Perronet Briggs, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir George Cayley
British inventor and scientist
Arkwright, detail of an engraving by J. Jenkins after a portrait by Joseph Wright
Sir Richard Arkwright
British industrialist and inventor
Henry Maudslay
British engineer and inventor
Charles Wheatstone.
Sir Charles Wheatstone
British physicist
John Hadley
British mathematician
Sir William Fothergill Cooke
British inventor
Sir John Isaac Thornycroft
British architect and engineer
Thomas Tredgold
English engineer and writer
Gowin Knight
English scientist
Sir Samuel Bentham
British engineer

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