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James Edgar Wimshurst

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1865 Born

1882-7 Apprenticed with Maudslay, Sons and Field; worked in his father's electrical laboratory in the evenings

1887-9 At sea as an engineer

1889 Asst. superintending engineer with Esplen and Son consulting engineers and naval architects in Liverpool

By 1891 had moved to the London office

1891 Joined I Mech E

1896 of William Esplen, Son and Swainston, Billiter Buildings, 22 Billiter Street, London, E.C


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