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JOSEPH WHITWORTH

Sir Joseph Whitworth was an English mechanical engineer and inventor. He was born in 1803 at Stockport and died in 1887. In 1835 he invented the knitting machine. In about 1850 he introduced a system of accurate measurement into factories which subsequently allowed systems of mass production to be developed. In 1869 he invented a process of fluid compression for making steel for use in guns.
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