William George Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong of Cragside
1810–1900
Inventor and industrialist. Pioneer in the fields of hydraulics and hydro-electricity. Inventor of the Armstrong gun. President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1863. Knighted, 1859; created Baron Armstrong of Cragside, 1887. FRS 1846.
Source
ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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