biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1813–90)
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| biography:
| Chemist and inventor, born in Birmingham, West Midlands, C England, UK. He was noted for his inventions in connection with electroplating, in the course of which he even electroplated a spider's web. He invented xylonite (a form of celluloid), first patented in 1855. |
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