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||1847: German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens & Halske, which later becomes Siemens AG.
||1847: German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens & Halske, which later becomes Siemens AG.
||1845: Elizabeth Fry dies ... prison reformer, social reformer and, as a Quaker, a Christian philanthropist. She has often been referred to as the "angel of prisons". Pic.


||1859: Robert Stephenson dies ... early railway and civil engineer. The only son of George Stephenson, the "Father of Railways", he built on the achievements of his father. Robert has been called the greatest engineer of the 19th century.
||1859: Robert Stephenson dies ... early railway and civil engineer. The only son of George Stephenson, the "Father of Railways", he built on the achievements of his father. Robert has been called the greatest engineer of the 19th century.

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