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    Charles Manby, FRS FRSA (4 February 1804 – 31 July 1884) was Secretary of the Institution of Civil Engineers from November 1839 to 1856, and engineer...
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    Philosophers (2002), Thoemmes Press (two volumes), article Babbage, Charles, p. 39. Charles Manby (1846). Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil...
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  • Lieussou, a French scientist John Robinson McClean, a British engineer Charles Manby, a British engineer Cipriano Segundo Montesino, a Spanish engineer Alois...
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    And always place the knives and forks in order mathematical. In 1853, Charles Manby Smith noted the importance of the club: "from having been wise enough...
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    June 1822 under Captain (later Admiral) Charles Napier, with Aaron's son Charles on board as engineer. Aaron Manby was then used by the Compagnie des bateaux...
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  • Extraordinary Bronwen Manby, British human rights scholar and lobbyist Charles Manby (1804–1884), civil engineer and son of Aaron Manby Dave Manby, canoeist or...
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    Captain George William Manby FRS (28 November 1765 – 18 November 1854) was an English author and inventor. He designed an apparatus for saving life from...
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    awarding him the Silver Telford Medal. With help from ICE secretary Charles Manby Colt established his London operation near Vauxhall Bridge on the River...
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    Aaron Manby (15 November 1776 – 1 December 1850) was an English civil engineer and the founder of the Horseley Ironworks, notable for the many fine iron...
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    would be expected of a 16- or 17-inch viola. About this same period did Charles Manby himself invent an instate fretted fIngerboard for his brand of "new...
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