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    Samuel Clegg (2 March 1781 – 8 January 1861) was a British engineer, known mostly for his development of the gas works process. Clegg was born at Manchester...
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  • 1913. The school was founded by Samuel Clegg, the headmaster, in 1910. He married the headmaster's daughter, Mary Clegg, in 1922. In 1915, he attended...
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  • Samuel Clegg (2 April 1814 – 22 July 1856) was a British civil engineer. Clegg was the only son of Samuel Clegg. He was employed as an assistant engineer...
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  • are intertwined in Washington, D.C. Capitol revolves around the Denning, Clegg, and McCandless families, who live in the fictional Jeffersonia, a suburb...
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    Drawing from a description of the atmospheric railway of Samuel Clegg and Joseph Samuda....
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    stroke. Believed to be the last engines manufactured by the company. Samuel Clegg Logan Henderson, engineer Beam Engine Watt steam engine Roll, Erich (1930)...
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    One of the employees at the Soho Foundry, Samuel Clegg, saw the potential of this new form of lighting. Clegg left his job to set up his own gas lighting...
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    commercial atmospheric railway in the world. Following a patent in 1839 Samuel Clegg and the Samuda brothers had set up a demonstration of an atmospheric...
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    built for the Soho manufactory in 1798. William Murdoch and his pupil Samuel Clegg went on to install retorts in individual factories and other workplaces...
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    London on 4 June 1807 by Frederick Albert Winsor. In 1811, Engineer Samuel Clegg designed and built what is now considered the oldest extant gasworks...
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    Teachers' Centre on Tamworth Road. The first headmaster was Samuel Clegg. The school was created for Clegg on the recommendation of Prof. Michael Sadler (who was...
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  • Yorkshire County Council from 1945 to 1974. Clegg was born in Sawley, Derbyshire, the son of Samuel Clegg, a headmaster, and his wife Mary. He was educated...
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    William Henry Cooke, who operated an iron forge near modern Etowah, and Samuel Clegg (or Cleage), a construction entrepreneur. Jesse Mayfield, whose descendants...
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  • Clegg is a given name and an English surname. Notable people with the name include: Clegg Hoyt (1910–1967), American actor Alec Clegg (1909–1986), English...
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    Shropshire North. In 1875, he assumed by royal licence the additional surname of Clegg, which was that of his maternal grandfather. He inherited financial problems...
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    works at Brick Lane and Westminster. Under the company's chief engineer, Samuel Clegg (formerly of Boulton and Watt), a gas works was installed at the Royal...
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    Thomas Hinde (senior), into that business before establishing the mill. Samuel Clegg installed gas lighting in the mill in 1811. The remains of this are considered...
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    to make iron gas tubes ca. 1820, selling some to gas lighting pioneer Samuel Clegg. When steel pipes were introduced in 19th century, they initially were...
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  • lighting and gas for domestic use. Meanwhile, William Murdoch and his pupil Samuel Clegg were installing gas lighting in factories and work places, encountering...
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    Ironworks; they were both members of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Samuel Clegg was a gas engineer and they worked in collaboration on their atmospheric...
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    exploitation by other commercial interests, such as his former assistant Samuel Clegg and Frederick Albert Winsor. In large part this was due to the failure...
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    basic design of gaslight apparatus was established by Boulton & Watt and Samuel Clegg in the period 1805–1812. Further improvements were made at the Gas Light...
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    pumila made in Aurora, Illinois, circa 1958 and patented in 1983 by Samuel Clegg of Clegg Landscaping, Plainfield, IL and Charles McFarland of Urbana, IL...
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  • places to find billy deposits forming. Early gasworks, from 1812, used Samuel Clegg's 'wet lime' purification process which produced large quantities of blue...
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  • geology, from 1845) Oliver Byrne (professor of mathematics, 1839-1841) Samuel Clegg (professor of civil engineering and architecture from 1849) Sir Edward...
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    August 1923 in Cambridge, the eldest of three sons of Mary Attenborough (née Clegg), a founding member of the Marriage Guidance Council, and Frederick Levi...
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    Academy Award-winning Wallace & Gromit films and played Norman "Cleggy" Clegg in Last of the Summer Wine from its 1973 inception until the final episode...
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    designed an atmospheric railway based on system of George Medhurst and Samuel Clegg and emulating such lines in London and Paris. This new line was to lead...
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  • Factory) II* 1894 Richard Harley 39 Gas Street (Gas Retort House) II* 1822 Samuel Clegg Guild House, 43-45 Great Charles Street II* 1897–1898 Arthur S. Dixon...
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  • Stamp and Samantha Eggar. The novel is about a lonely young man, Frederick Clegg, who works as a clerk in a city hall and collects butterflies in his spare...
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