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1839–1909, chemist; father of Alfred Moritz Mond. He was born in Germany and became a naturalized British subject. Mond experimented with alkalies a...
1840–1907, English civil engineer. He helped build London’s underground railway, Tower Bridge, and the Blackwall Tunnel, and with Sir John Fowler ...
(bär´n b s) (KEY) , Christian apostle. He was a Cypriot and a relative of St. Mark; his forename was Joseph. Several passages in the New Testament r...
(s ´v r ) (KEY) , 1721–87, American cabinetmaker. He is believed to have lived in Philadelphia from c.1740. Savery is noted for his artistic and or...
1879–1963, British economist, b. India, grad. Oxford, 1902. His fame as an authority on social problems was gained through investigations and writin...
(k gz´w l, –w l) (KEY) , 1786–1871, American librarian and bibliographer, b. Ipswich, Mass. After studying abroad, Cogswell taught mineralogy and...