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WILLIAM ARMSTRONG

William George Armstrong was a British engineer and inventor. He was born in 1810 at Newcastle and died in 1900. A solicitor by trade, his real interest were in science and by 1841 he was publishing papers on engineering, mainly specialising in hydraulic machinery. During the Crimean War he turned his attention to the invention of guns and invented the breech-loading Armstrong Gun. In 1859 William Armstrong was knighted and in 1887 made a peer as Baron Armstrong.
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