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William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong.
English inventor, scientist, engineer, industrialist (1810-1900)
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About William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong
William George Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong was an English engineer and industrialist who founded the Armstrong Whitworth manufacturing concern on Tyneside. He was also an eminent scientist, inventor and philanthropist. In collaboration with the architect Richard Norman Shaw, he built Cragside in Northumberland, the first house in the world to be lit by hydroelectricity. He is regarded as the inventor of modern artillery.
Everything about William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong →- Occupation
- engineer, inventor, entrepreneur, civil engineer
- Position held
- member of the House of Lords, president, High Sheriff of Northumberland
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- November 26, 1810
- Died
- December 27, 1900