Some Isle of Wight Inventors and Inventions
Stories of Local Technology
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| Arab stimulates an American industry | The forgotten work at Ryde of John Harrington | |||
| Boy's Death Improves Life For Others | Valentine Gray and teh Ramo;eur Company | |||
| Confectioners tie rockets up with string | The Matthew brothers rocket apparatus | |||
| Climb every Mountain | The Ventnor Funicular Railway that never was | |||
| Earth shaking events at Shide | The life of Professor John Milne. Father of Modern Seismology | |||
| Free Power from Ryde for ever | George Singleton Hill and his Waterwheel | |||
| Genius Brother of Newport Grocer | A little about Robert Hooke 1635 - 1703 | |||
| Get another electrician | Guglielmo Marconi' work on the Isle of Wight | |||
| Motor Cars are here to stay | The Liquid Fuel Company of East Cowes | |||
| Neither fish nor fowl | Sir Christopher Cockerell and Island Hovercraft | |||
| Nunn makes fortune with French blond | Henry William Nunn - then Lace maufacturer of Whippingham | |||
| Princess is followed by Islander | The story of just two of the Island aircraft | |||
| Ryde man opens up the world | Henry Knight and the story of the tin-opener | |||
| Sewers fascinate Parkhurst resident | Robert Harris Reeves - foreman of parkhurst works | |||
| Was he really Alice's White Knight? | Augustus George vernon Harcourt 1834 - 1919 | |||
| Bibliography and References | Sources and additional material not listed elsewhere in the text |
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