biography
pronunciation:
[kiyan]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1774–1850)
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| biography:
| Inventor, born in Dublin, Ireland. He worked in a brewery in England, and in 1832 invented a patent method of preserving wood, known as the kyanizing process. He died in New York City, where he was planning the filtering of the water supply. |
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