James Wimshurst
English inventor, engineer and shipwright · Scientists · Lived 1832 to 1903 · aged 70
James Wimshurst was an English inventor, engineer and shipwright. Though Wimshurst did not patent his machines and the various improvements that he made to them, his refinements to the electrostatic generator led to its becoming widely known as the Wimshurst machine.
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Lived 1832 to 1903 · aged 70
