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July 31, 1884. Charles Manby died.—The eldest son of Aaron Manby, one of the pioneers of iron shipbuilding, Charles Manby was engineer of the first iron steamer which crossed the English Channel, and after gaining experience in his father's gas and iron works in France returned to England, and from 1839 to 1856 rendered valuable services to the engineering world as secretary to the Institution of Civil Engineers.
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S., E. Calendar of Industrial Pioneers. Nature 110, 166 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110166a0
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