Following is a list of sites in London associated
with Technology and Engineering
- Alaxandra Railway Bridge (Cannon Street)
- ARKWRIGHT, Sir Richard (1732-1792),
- Industrialist and Inventor, lived here.
- BAIRD, John Logie (1888-1946),
- Inventor. First demonstrated television in this house in 1926.
- BAIRD, John Logie (1888-1946),
- Inventor. Television Pioneer, lived here.
- BARLOW, William Henry (1812-1902),
- Engineer, lived and died here.
- BAZALGETTE, Sir Joseph William (1819-1891),
- Civil Engineer, lived here.
- Blackfriars Railway Bridge (St Pauls Bridge)
- BLUMLEIN, Alan Dower (1903-1942),
- Electronics Engineer and Inventor, lived here.
- BRUNEL, Isambard Kingdom (1806-1859),
- Civil Engineers, lived here.
- BRUNEL, Sir Marc Isambard (1769-1849),
- Civil Engineers, lived here.
- CARTER, Howard (1874-1939),
- Egyptologist and Discoverer of the tomb of Tutankhamun, lived here.
- CATO STREET CONSPIRACY
- Discovered here, 23 February 1820.
- CHELSEA CHINA
- was manufactured in a house at the north end of Lawrence Street 1745-1784.
- CREED, Frederick George (1871-1957),
- Electrical Engineer, Inventor of the Teleprinter, lived and died here.
- CROMPTON, Colonel R. E. B. (1845-1940)
- Electrical Engineer lived an d worked here 1891-1939.
- DE HAVILLAND, Sir Geoffrey (1882-1965)
- Aircraft designer, lived here 1909-1910
- Dockland Light Railway
- EARNSHAW, Thomas
- Site of the business premises of Thomas Earnshaw (1749-1829), noted Watch and Chronometer Maker.
- FLEMING, Sir Alexander (1881-1955),
- Discoverer of penicillin, lived here.
- FLEMING, Sir Ambrose (1849-1945),
- Scientist and Electrical Engineer, lived here.
- Fountain Abbey
- Nice original pub, friendly staff, has a local feel to
it. On the other side of the road it the lab in which Flemming
discovered Penciling, where did the spore come from !
Praed
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- Gabor, Dennis Gabor Nobel Prize (1900 – 1979)
- Dennis Gabor (1900 – 1979), the inventor of holograms,his other great achievements are the quartz mercury street lamp and the flat television tube. Holograms have many applications in everyday life and are used on credit cards, for research, in medicine a
- GREAT EASTERN, The
- Launched 1858. Largest steamship of the century, was built here by I.K. (Isambard Kingdom) BRUNEL (1806-1859), Civil Engineer and J. (John) Scott RUSSELL (1808-1882), Naval Architect.
- GREATHEAD, James Henry (1844-1896),
- Railway and Tunnelling Engineer, lived here 1885-1889.
- GRESLEY, Sir Nigel (1876-1941),
- Locomotive Engineer, had his office in this station 1923-1941.
- Grosvenor Railway Bridge
- The Grosvenor Railway Bridge, also known as the Victoria Bridge, was the first railway bridge to span the Thames into central London. The bridge was built for the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway (LB & SCR). Work began on 9 June 1859 and the first t
- Gun Powder Plot - Terrorists
- Guy Fawkes and his co plotters, on the 5 Nov 1606, attempted to blow up the House of Commons during the Kings speech, when almost everybody of any importance would be there. The aim was to overthrow the protestant state and bring an Catholic one. Fortunately the plot was discovered and plotter later executed.
- HANSOM, Joseph Aloysius (1803-1882),
- Architect, Founder Editor of The Builder and Inventor of the Hansom Cab, lived here.
- HARRISON, John (1693-1776),
- Inventor of the Marine Chronometer, lived and died in a house on this site.
- HUGHES, David Edward (1831-1900),
- Scientist and Inventor of the microphone, lived and worked here.
- James, C.L.R. (1901-1989)
- Political activist, novelist, playwright, historian and renowned cricket writer. From 1981 until his death on 31 May 1989, C.L.R. James lived at 165 Railton Road in Brixton
- KELVIN, Lord (1824-1907),
- Physicist and Inventor, lived here.
- London Necropolis Railway
- Due to over full cemeteries, high death rate caused by Cholera and other illnesses, London almost ran out of burial space. One solution was the Necropolis Railway. This is the site of the London station of the Necropolis railway. From here the bodies in there coffins and the mourners would be transported to the cemetery in Woking.
- MARCONI, Guglielmo (1874-1937),
- Inventor. The Pioneer of wireless communications, lived here in 1896-1897.
- MAXIM, Sir Hiram (1840-1896),
- Inventor and Engineer, designed and manufactured THE MAXIM GUN in a workshop on these premises.
- MORSE, Samuel (1791-1872),
- American Painter and Inventor of the Morse Code, lived here 1812-1815.
- Mr Lloyds coffee house
- From 1688, ship captains, owners and merchants would gather at Mr Lloyds coffee house on Tower Street to get reliable shipping news and marine insurance. Lloyds of London had been born.
- MUIRHEAD, Alexander (1848-1920),
- Electrical Engineer, lived here.
- PAGE, Sir Frederick Handley (1885-1962),
- Aircraft Designer Engineer and Manufacturer, lived here in Flat 3.
- PEEL, Sir Robert (1750-1830),
- Manufacturer and Reformer lived here.
- Prison - Fleet
- Founded in the Norman period and demolished in 1846, to make way for a railway station and tracks.
- Railway, The
- A local that is trying to aim city types who get off the train at the wrong stop.
Commercial Road
- Ramsay, Sir William (1852–1916)
- The chemist and discoverer of the noble gases
- Ricardo, Sir Harry (1885-1974) - Mechanical Engineer
- One of the foremost engineers of the 20th century, he was a pioneer of the internal combustion engine and his work made a lasting and significant impact on the development of automobiles. Amoung many other projects, he designed a new engine for the Mark V
- ROSS, Sir Ronald (1857-1932),
- Doctor ,Nobel Laureate, Discoverer of the mosquito transmission of malaria, lived here.
- Royal Institution of Civil Engineers
- Shelley Westbrook, Harriet - Suicide
- First wife of Percy Byshe Shelley drowned herself in the Serpentine Lake, after she discovered he had run off Mary.
- Ship, The
- Good old style pub. There are no chairs and table, but
only stools.
Talbot
Court off Gracechurch Street
- Ship, The
- Nice comfy lounge bar. Worth a visit.
Gate Street
- SOPWITH, Sir Thomas (1888-1989)
- Aviator and Aircraft Manufacturer, lived here 1934-1940.
- STANHOPE, Charles, 3rd Earl (1753-1816),
- Reformer and Inventor, lived here.
- STANLEY, W.F.R. (1829-1909),
- Inventor, Manufacturer and Philanthropist, founded and designed these halls and technical school.
- STEPHENSON, Robert (1803-1859),
- Engineer, died here.
- Temeraire, The Fighting - Turner
- Turner painted the picture of the ship being taken to be broken up in Rotherhithe from here
- The Marine Broker
- Wine
bar - friendly owner who has put up with our riotous
behaviour as the evening wears on. Not so busy since the
new pubs sprung up.
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- The Ship
- "Man stands up with a pint" pub
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- THOMPSON, Sir Benjamin, Count Rumford (1753-1814),
- Inventor and Adventurer, lived here.
- Tower Street Explosion
- On one Monday night in January 1649 27 barrels of gunpowder exploded killing 67 people. The gunpowder was being stored by a Tower Street resident, Robert Porter, to be loaded onto a ship the following day.
- TURING, Alan (1912-1954),
- FATHER OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, MATHEMATICIAN, LOGICIAN, WARTIME CODEBREAKER, creator of the Turings test, VICTIM OF PREJUDICE. Was born here.
- WHEATSTONE, Sir Charles (1802-1875),
- Scientist and Inventor, lived here.
- Whittington, Richard Lord Mayor (1350-1423)
- Legend has it that Dick was an orphaned who put his one possession, a cat, on his master’s ship in the hope that it might be traded. He then ran away but turned back when he heard the Bow Bells ring (“Turn again, Whittington, lord mayor of London”) and fo
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