• John Roebuck of Kinneil FRS FRSE (1718 – 17 July 1794) was an English industrialist, inventor, mechanical engineer, and physician who played an important...
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    John Arthur Roebuck (28 December 1802 – 30 November 1879), British politician, was born at Madras, in India. He was raised in Canada, and moved to England...
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    Daniel James Roebuck (born March 4, 1963) is an American actor and writer. In film, he is known for his roles as Deputy Marshal Robert Biggs in The Fugitive...
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    Sears (redirect from Sears, Roebuck)
    Sears, Roebuck and Co. (/sɪərz/ SEERZ), commonly known as Sears, is an American chain of department stores founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and...
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  • Arthur Roebuck (1878–1971), Canadian politician and lawyer Charlie Roebuck (born 1991), English cricketer Chris Roebuck, British economist Daniel Roebuck (born...
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  • largely supplanted by the contact process. In 1746 in Birmingham, England, John Roebuck began producing sulfuric acid in lead-lined chambers, which were stronger...
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    first large-scale production of sulfuric acid. In 1746 in Birmingham, John Roebuck adapted this method to produce sulfuric acid in lead-lined chambers,...
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    Arthur Wentworth Roebuck, QC, (February 28, 1878 – November 17, 1971) was a Canadian politician and labour lawyer. Roebuck was born in Hamilton, Ontario...
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    of military setbacks, a Commons motion was brought by the radical MP John Roebuck to appoint a select committee to investigate the management of the war...
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  • Peter Michael Roebuck (6 March 1956 – 12 November 2011) was an English cricketer who later became an Australian newspaper columnist and radio commentator...
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  • Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves, Ione Skye Leitch in her film debut, Daniel Roebuck and Dennis Hopper. It follows a group of teenagers in a Northern California...
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  • Thomas Roebuck (1781–1819) was a Scottish army officer of the East India Company, known as an orientalist and lexicographer. A grandson of inventor John Roebuck...
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    Carron Works were: John Roebuck, a medical doctor and chemist from Sheffield; his two brothers, Thomas Roebuck and Ebenezer Roebuck; Samuel Garbett, a...
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  • proved insufficient, when this whitesmith died soon after Watt wrote to John Roebuck greatly lamenting the loss of his "white iron man". With the industrial...
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    James Watt when Watt's business partner, John Roebuck, was unable to pay a debt to Boulton, who accepted Roebuck's share of Watt's patent as settlement....
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    was the first practical production of sulphuric acid on a large scale. John Roebuck and Samuel Garbett were the first to establish a large-scale factory...
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    the world's first cotton mill in Birmingham's Upper Priory. In 1746 John Roebuck invented the lead chamber process, enabling the large-scale manufacture...
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    Jackson, Jean-André Deluc, John Wilkinson, John Ash, Samuel More, Robert Bage, James Brindley, Ralph Griffiths, John Roebuck, Thomas Percival, Joseph Black...
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    backing came from John Roebuck, the founder of the celebrated Carron Iron Works near Falkirk, with whom he now formed a partnership. Roebuck lived at Kinneil...
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    details and 1950s memorabilia on the walls. The concept was created by John Roebuck and Tony Horsfall for City Centre Restaurants (now The Restaurant Group)...
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  • Howard Thornton as Art the Clown Chris Jericho as Burke, a nurse Daniel Roebuck as Santa Claus Tom Savini Jason Patric Antonella Rose as Gabbie Krsy Fox...
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  • it is now rarely used. Gastropods portal Mollusks Gastropods Taylor, John; Roebuck, William; Ashford, Charles (1907). Monograph of the Land & Freshwater...
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    were founders with Samuel Garbett and John Roebuck, of the Carron Iron Works, in 1759, originally known as Roebuck, Garbett & Cadells. His daughter Christian...
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  • independently develop the Leyden jar, an early form of capacitor. 1746: John Roebuck invents the lead chamber process. 1752: Benjamin Franklin invents the...
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    Stephen John Oram (born 1973) is an English actor, comedian, writer, and filmmaker. He is known for his role in the multi-award winning 2012 film Sightseers...
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    HMS Roebuck was an R-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service during World War II. She was the fifteenth ship to carry this traditional...
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  • Quesnel as Agnes Thatcher Malcolm Storry as Gideon Langtree Steve Oram as John Roebuck The series was created by Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes co-creator...
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    classes; and men such as Matthew Boulton, James Keir, James Watt and John Roebuck were simultaneously highly regarded both as scientists and as technologists...
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    Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Michael de Robeck, 1st Baronet, GCB, GCMG, GCVO (10 June 1862 – 20 January 1928) was an officer in the Royal Navy. In the...
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  • (b. 1717) 1793 – Charlotte Corday, French murderer (b. 1768) 1794 – John Roebuck, English chemist and businessman (b. 1718) 1845 – Charles Grey, 2nd Earl...
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