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Joseph Whitworth

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Gender Male
Date of birth December 21,1803
Zodiac sign Sagittarius
Born Stockport
United Kingdom
DiedMonte Carlo
Monaco
Signific advancWhitworth standardised screw threads
BooksMiscellaneous Papers on Mechanical Subjects: Guns and Steel
Awards Fellow of the Royal Society
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Joseph Whitworth Life story


Sir Joseph Whitworth, 1st Baronet Bt FRS FRSA was an English engineer, entrepreneur, inventor and philanthropist. In 1841, he devised the British Standard Whitworth system, which created an accepted standard for screw threads.

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