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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 patent for a tea making appliance in September 1928.
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.
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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, the fourth of seven children, Isabella, Annie Rose, John, Ronald, Frank, who died as a baby, Arthur and Leonard. His father George was a house painter. Ronald and his sister
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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 & Co Ltd., Telegraph Works, Croydon, relating to telegraphic equipment. In 1925 Creed and Co. (including Ethelred, but not Frederick) applied for a patent relating to improvements to electric switches. Ethelred
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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 have sold oils, including lamp oils, paints, brushes, cleaning materials, and pigments for mixing household paints, probably in a hardware shop. George went to school at Holy Trinity School, Lewisham.
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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 fourth of six children: Richard, Nelson, Thomas, Annie, William, and Helen. His family were English but emigrated to Canada and then moved on to America in 1894 or 1895. William’