Charles Vincent Walker
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Charles Vincent Walker (c1812-1883)
Telegraph engineer of 26 Upper Grosvenor Road, Tunbridge Wells.
FRS, FRAS, FMS and President of the Society of Telegraph Engineers. 37 years Telegraph Engineer to the South Eastern Railway.
1883 Died aged 71. 'At Tunbridge Wells, on the 25th inst., Mr. C. V. Walker, President of the Society of Telegraphic Engineers, and telegraphic engineer for the South-Eastern Railway Company, the deceased was the inventor of several useful appliances, notably the instruments by which the block system on railways is worked, and the electrical communication between passenger and guard in general use on the Southern Railway.'[1]
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- ↑ Dundee Advertiser - Friday 29 December 1882