Bennet Woodcroft
1803–79
Engineer and Patent Office administrator. Partner in his father’s textile business, 1828–40. Consulting engineer and patent agent, 1843. Professor of machinery at University College, London, 1847–51. Assistant to the commissioner of patents from 1852. FRS 1859.
Source
ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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