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THE death is announced of Clarence Hamilton Creasey at Llangerniew on May 22. Educated at the Royal College of Science, he became principal of Wellingborough Technical Institute, and inspector of technical schools under the Board of Education. He was the author of books on continuation and technical education and was a popular lecturer and broadcaster. He collaborated with Prof. A. S. Eve in writing the “Life and Work of John Tyndall”, published in 1945 ; and with H. G. Wells in “Work, Health and Happiness of Mankind”. His book, “Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century”, published under the pen-name 'Edward Cressy' in 1914, was widely appreciated. Under the same pseudonym, he also wrote “An Outline of Industrial History” (1915), “A Hundred Years of Mechanical Engineering” (1927), “Stories of Engineering Adventure” (1928), “Civil Engineering To-day” (1938). He took an active part in the organisation of education for gas engineers in association with the Institution of Gas Engineers.
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Mr. C. H. Creasey, O.B.E. Nature 159, 802 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159802a0
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