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Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Sir Charles Parsons
Sir Charles Parsons
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1884: Sir Charles Parsons, in Durham, invented...
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1884
Sir Charles Parsons
, in
Durham
, invented the first practical steam-turbine engine to drive a dynamo for electric light.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer.
The Chronology of British History
. Century, 1992.
310
Grun, Bernard.
The Timetables of History
. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
443
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