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  2. Edwin Ruud - Wikipedia

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    Ruud was issued his patent for the coiled tube Automatic Water Heater on September 6, 1898. [17] A 1915 diagram showing the innards of a Ruud instantaneous water heater. Ruud's business expanded as he popularized and improved on his instant water heater design. In 1908, Ruud Manufacturing acquired two local heating and plumbing firms.

  3. George Richards Elkington - Wikipedia

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    George Richards Elkington (1801–1865) by Samuel West The old Elkington Silver Electroplating Works in Birmingham Commemorative inkstand, about 1850, Elkington & Co. V&A Museum no. 481&A-1901 George Richards Elkington (17 October 1801 – 22 September 1865) was a manufacturer from Birmingham , England.

  4. Water heating - Wikipedia

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    A water heater is still sometimes called a geyser in the UK and South Africa. Maughn's invention influenced the work of a Norwegian mechanical engineer named Edwin Ruud. The first automatic, storage tank-type gas water heater was invented around 1889 by Ruud after he immigrated to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (US). The Ruud Manufacturing Company ...

  5. Electroplating - Wikipedia

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    Brush electroplating has several advantages over tank plating, including portability, the ability to plate items that for some reason cannot be tank plated (one application was the plating of portions of very large decorative support columns in a building restoration), low or no masking requirements, and comparatively low plating solution ...

  6. John Wright (inventor) - Wikipedia

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    John Wright (1808–1844) was a surgeon from Birmingham, England who invented a process of electroplating involving potassium cyanide. The process was patented in 1840 by Wright's associate George Richards Elkington. He was born on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent and was apprenticed to a Dr Spearman in Rotherham, Yorkshire.

  7. Margaret A. Wilcox - Wikipedia

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    Wilcox's patent for a car heater, 1893. Margaret A. Wilcox (1838 – March 30, 1912) was an American mechanical engineer and inventor known for her late-nineteenth-century discoveries. The automotive heating system established the foundation for modern vehicle temperature control. She also contributed to the development of home appliance ...