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| William
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Lancashire 22-May-
1783-Prestwich, Manchester,
04-December-1850 |
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| Biographical Notes
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| Son of a
shoemaker, John
father described like fannullone. To single 10 years the mother dies it
and in order to survive she is forced to make the apprentice near an
other
shoemaker without an adapted scholastic education. Remains in this
situation until to the 1802 year in which it lend service in the army
of Westmorland, two years after is in the real artillery where has the
opportunity to approach the libraries of the units where can learn the
first rudiments of language, physical and mathematics. It lend service
in this body until to the age of thirty-seven years (1820). For a short
time after the military experience it becomes trader to Woolwich, and
nigth time it studies the natural philosophy
(physical) and enters in the Woolwich Literary Society. In 1824 he is
lecturer (lecturer)
in the military College - East India Company's Royal Military - in
Addiscombe in Surrey. The successive year attends the real Academy of
Woolwich where with the aid of Francis Watkins (London) has
constructed an
electromagnet. Spouse with Mrs Hilton from which he will have three
children whom he loses prematurely. In 1829 the marry one with Mary
Bromley, and also from this wife he does not have sons and decide to
adopt a girl, Ellen Coates that will very become attached the wife. He
publishes in the 1830 “Experimental Researches”.
In 1832 he
works near a museum of science, Adelaide Gallery of Practical Science
in London, museum that will ask in 1840. In 1836 I found the first
review electrical worker of the United Kingdom “Annals
of Electricity”
that it will print until to 1843. After the '40 she is supervisor of
the museum Royal Victoria Gallery of Practical Science the Manchester
and will cover this role for four years (1840-1844).In 1843 it
publishes twelve simple pantries on the galvanism “Magnetical
Advertisements”. After
the '44 (61 years) it receives a pension of £ 200 from bottom
Royal
Bounty Fund, that successively it will be integrated from a sum of
£ 50
annual from the government however an insufficient sum for its
maintenance.
4 December of 1850 dies after a long
disease.
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