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    Bryan Donkin FRS FRAS (22 March 1768 – 27 February 1855) developed the first paper making machine and created the world's first commercial canning factory...
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    Sir Horatio Bryan Donkin FRCP (1 February 1845 – 26 July 1927) was a British medical doctor and criminologist. He spent his early career as a consultant...
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    his patent in 1811 to Bryan Donkin and John Hall, who were in business as Donkin Hall and Gamble, of Bermondsey. Bryan Donkin developed the process of...
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  • Donkin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Billy Donkin (1900–1974), British footballer Bryan Donkin (1768–1855), British engineer...
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  • Sydney Bryan Donkin (24 June 1871 – 12 November 1952) was a British civil engineer. His parents were Bryan Donkin Junior and Georgina Dillon. Donkin was...
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  • John Donkin (1802–1854) was a British engineer. He was a son of Bryan Donkin and worked in this father's company in Bermondsey, primarily on paper-making...
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  • Bryan Donkin and John Hall, for £1,000. Donkin was involved with tinning of iron from 1808 and was keen to expand it to the food industry. Donkin and...
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    are used to distinguish the two. The first tachometer was described by Bryan Donkin in a paper to the Royal Society of Arts in 1810 for which he was awarded...
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    on to brothers Henry and Sealy Fourdrinier, who financed the engineer Bryan Donkin to construct the machine. Their first successful machine was installed...
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    Joseph Lemuel Chester, 1821–1882, American genealogist, poet and editor Bryan Donkin, 1768–1855, engineer who developed a paper-making machine and food-canning...
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  • Guide. Retrieved 23 May 2017. Greenland, Maureen; Day, Russ (2016). Bryan Donkin: The Very Civil Engineer, 1768-1855. England: Phillimore Book Publishing...
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    pursue food canning, but, in 1812, sold his patent to two Englishmen, Bryan Donkin and John Hall, who refined the process and product, and set up the world's...
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    had learned of the Ringelmann scale in a private communication from a Bryan Donkin of London. The article is attributed to William Kent, then associate...
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    British patent 2487 on 20 October 1801. With the help particularly of Bryan Donkin, a skilled and ingenious mechanic, an improved version of the Robert...
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  • machinery used in corn, paper, oil and powder mills in and around Dartford. Bryan Donkin was one of the firm's earliest apprentices. Around 1800, the firm moved...
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    patented by Peter Durand in 1810. The patent was acquired in 1812 by Bryan Donkin, who soon set up the world's first canning factory in London in 1813...
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    throughout his career. In a séance in 1876 in London Ray Lankester and Bryan Donkin snatched his slate before the "spirit" message was supposed to be written...
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    at a constant rate of speed and guaranteed accurate screw threads”. Bryan Donkin in 1826 took Maudsleys design and refined it further with his screw cutting...
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    creating the modern-day process of canning foods. In 1812 Englishmen Bryan Donkin and John Hall purchased both patents and began producing preserves. Despite...
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    creating the modern-day process of canning foods. In 1812, Englishmen Bryan Donkin and John Hall purchased both patents and began producing preserves. Just...
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    pursue food canning, but, in 1812, sold his patent to two Englishmen, Bryan Donkin and John Hall, who refined the process and product, and set up the world's...
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  • and in 1785 Hall opened a workshop in Lowfield Street in Dartford. Bryan Donkin was an early apprentice, in 1792. Around 1800, the firm moved to larger...
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    with canning food. He sold his patent in 1812 to two other Englishmen, Bryan Donkin and John Hall, who refined the process and product and set up the world's...
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    Council. Retrieved 27 February 2012. Greenland, Maureen; Day, Russ (2016). Bryan Donkin: The Very Civil Engineer, 1768–1855. England: Phillimore Book Publishing...
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    patent for the manufacture of metal pens was advertised for sale by Bryan Donkin in 1811.[full citation needed] John Mitchell of Birmingham started to...
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    born at Bamburgh in 1815 Pete Doherty, musician, born at Hexham in 1979 Bryan Donkin, engineer and industrialist, born at Sandhoe in 1768 Wilfrid Wilson Gibson...
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    out a patent on the process in 1810, which he sold to industrialist Bryan Donkin in 1812 for £1,000 (equivalent to £84,000 in 2023). The British Admiralty...
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    (Hon. Member in 1932) Arthur Bell, paediatrician (Club Chairman) Sir Bryan Donkin George Fayad Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, OM, PRS Charles Rycroft Music...
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    all makers. There was no uncertainty in the value of this development. Bryan Donkin designed and built a screw cutting and dividing engine lathe in 1826...
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    horizontal drainage area, referred to as the drainage table. With the help of Bryan Donkin, a skilled and ingenious mechanic, an improved version of the Robert...
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