biography
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| lived:
| (1825–1904)
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| biography:
| Inventor and manufacturer, born in Manchester, Greater Manchester, NW England, UK. He emigrated to the USA with his parents as a boy and settled in Derby, CT. His father went into the wire-drawing business, and William became president upon his death and built a large and flourishing copper, brass, and wire enterprise. In 1874 he introduced dynamo-electric machinery into his factory. Eventually his dynamos could copper-plate 100 mi of steel wire at a time, and he later designed the first commercial arc light. In 1896 he sold his business and retired to Washington, DC. |
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