Robert Stirling Newall
1812–89
Scottish-born engineer and astronomer. Patented wire rope, 1850. Manufacturer of telegraph cables and owner of a cable-laying company. Mayor of Gateshead, 1867–8. Member of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1864; member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 1879. FRS 1875.
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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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