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Britannica 11th

Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition

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Elkington

Britannica 11th

ELKINGTON, GEORGE RICHARDS (1801-1865), founder of the electroplating industry in England, was born in Birmingham on the 1 7th of October 1801, the son of a spectacle manufacturer. Apprenticed to his uncle?, silver platers in Birmingham, he became, on their de ...

Vol. 9, pp. 288-288 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 330.0
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Teddington

Britannica 11th

TEDDINGTON, an urban district in the Uxbridge parliamentary division of Middlesex, England, close to the Thames, 13 m. W.S.W. of St Paul's Cathedral, London, on the London and South-Western railway. Pop. (1901) 14,037. The district is residential and the town

Vol. 26, pp. 499-499 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 33.16
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