biography
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Crampton, Thomas Russell
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| male
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| lived:
| (1816–88)
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| biography:
| Engineer, born in Broadstairs, Kent, SE England, UK. He was a pioneer of locomotive construction, and was responsible for the first successful cross-channel submarine cable, between Dover and Calais, in 1851. He built the Berlin waterworks (1855), and many railway systems. |
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