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William Eden Highfield (1880-1938) of Highfield and Roger Smith
c.1880 Born son of Samuel Highfield, brother of John Somerville Highfield
c1924 Co-inventer with John Earnshaw Calverley of the high voltage transverter which was demonstrated at the Empire Exhibition at Wembley in 1924.
1938 Obituary [1]
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