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    Warren De la Rue FRS FRAS (18 January 1815 – 19 April 1889) was a British astronomer, chemist, and inventor, most famous for his pioneering work in astronomical...
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    Thomas de la Rue (24 March 1793 – 7 June 1866) was a printer from Guernsey who founded De La Rue plc, a printing company which is now the world's largest...
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  • and singer Thomas de la Rue (1793–1866), printer from Guernsey Warren De la Rue (1815–1889), British astronomer and chemist De La Rue baronets, various baronets...
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    of De La Rue's northern rim, and the smaller Thales is attached to the northwestern part of the wall. The crater was named after Warren De la Rue, who...
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    produced per envelope when they were cut out. In 1845 Edwin Hill and Warren de la Rue obtained a patent for a steam-driven machine that not only cut out...
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  • Warren de la Rue: 1879–1880 Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe: 1880–1882 Sir Joseph Henry Gilbert: 1882–1883 William Henry Perkin: 1883–1885 Hugo Muller [de]:...
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    Thomas Edison did not invent the light bulb. In 1840, British scientist Warren de la Rue developed an efficient light bulb using a coiled platinum filament...
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    commercially produced incandescent light bulbs in the 1920s. In 1840, Warren de la Rue enclosed a platinum coil in a vacuum tube and passed an electric current...
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  • service. Pollock married in 1871 Alice Georgina de la Rue (died 1929), eldest daughter of Warren De la Rue. "Sir Edward Pollock". The Times. 16 April 1930...
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    development in "about 1836"; credit for the invention is ascribed to Warren De La Rue in the Reports of the Juries from the Great Exhibition of 1851. Many...
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