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Northampton Polytechnic Institute

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The Northampton Institute in Clerkenwell, London, was built in 1894 on land presented by the Marquess of Northampton, very close to the centre of the British manufacturing optics industry.

It opened for classes in 1896.

Its first principal was Dr Robert Mullineaux Walmsley (1854-1924), an electrical engineer with a keen interest in optics and a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers.

1898 it was the first institution to provide systematic educational courses in technical optics.


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