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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William Ronald Magain

An Australian, named as Mr W Maggin (sic) in the Adelaide Advertiser, claimed to have invented a teasmade in about

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Herbert James Karslake

Herbert James Karslake was born in Mortehoe, Devon, in 1882, the son of railway signalman and porter Michael Karslake. Herbert

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Robert Frederick Lawson

Robert Frederick Lawson of 418, Claremont Avenue, Westmount, Province of Quebec, Canada, was a British Subject. He applied for a

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Ronald George Grumble

Ronald George Grumble was an instrument maker and inventor. He was born in Watford, Hertfordshire, in the summer of 1902,

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Ethelred Alfred Willson

Ethelred Alfred Willson of 11 Canning Road, Croydon, Surrey, submitted several patent applications with Frederick George Creed of Creed &

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George Augustus Absolom

George Augustus Absolom was born on May 22nd 1900, the son of oil and colourman Frederick William Absolom. Frederick would

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William Hermann Brenner Thornton

William Hermann Brenner Thornton was born William Blaney Thornton, in Brooklyn, New York, on 9th November 1899. He was the

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