Charles Sylvester
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Charles Sylvester was a chemist and inventor born in Sheffield, in the Kingdom of Great Britain. He worked on galvanization, public building heating and sanitation, and railroad friction amongst other
Bust in Derby Museum by Francis Chantrey
Toilet design
Warm air stove
Erasmus Darwin
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Erasmus Robert Darwin was an English physician. One of the key thinkers of the Midlands Enlightenment, he was also a natural philosopher, physiologist, abolitionist, inventor, freemason, and poet.
Charles Sylvester
…a member of the Royal Society by five distinguished proposers who included Marc Isambard Brunel and James Watt. Sylvester with Strutt was a member of Erasmus Darwin's Derby Philosophical Society. Sylvester was commissioned by the Chairman of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway to advise them on the subject of the…
Erasmus Darwin c. 1792–1793, oil painting by Joseph Wright of Derby, Derby Museum and Art Gallery
Darwin's House in Lichfield, now a museum dedicated to his life and work
Portrait of Erasmus Darwin, 1770, by Joseph Wright of Derby
Erasmus Darwin's coat of arms. Escutcheon: Argent, on a bend Gules cottised Vert, three escallop shells, Or. Crest: A demi-griffin segreant, Vert, holding in his claws an escallop, Or. Motto: E conchis omnia (All things out of conches/molluscs).