Inventors

Some of the most significant teasmade inventors from the Victorian era to the 1970s. They are arranged here in order of the dates of their inventions. Their stories will be told in my teasmade book, which you can preview on this website.

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Charles Maynard Walker

Charles Maynard Walker, inventor of the Early Riser’s Friend in 1891.

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Samuel Rowbottom

Samuel’s family farmed at Moorside, Chisworth, Derbyshire, from the first half of the 18th centry to early in the

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James Alfred Greenhalgh

On 17th August 1893 two men from Salford, Lancaster, patented a gas-powered teasmade. James Alfred Greenhalgh was a tinman and

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James Perry

James Perry, a watchmaker of 54 Rugby Place, Brighton, applied for a patent for a ‘Combined Alarm, Clock, and Water

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Henry James Sams

Henry James Sams was born in Washingley, Huntingdonshire, in about 1863. He married Mary Searle (named in the GRO transcript

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George William Richardson

George William Richardson was born on 31st March 1872 in Peterborough. He was the illegitimate son of Mary Ann Richardson.

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Albert Edward Richardson

Probably the first commercially produced automatic tea making machine was a fantastic device built in 1904 by Albert Edward Richardson

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George James Gray

George James Gray was an electrician, born in Clerkenwell in about 1850. He married Jane Woodley, from Brixton, in 1875.

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John Alexander Manners-Smith

John Alexander Manners-Smith BSc was an electrical engineer from Coniston, Haslemere, Surrey. He was an associate member of the Institution

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Josiah Wilkins

Josiah Wilkins was an engineer from 56 Charlotte Street, Blackburn. He submitted an application for an automatic tea maker in

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