Welsh Achievements - in science, technology and engineering (PDF

1896 – 1926
Ernest Thompson Willows.
b. Cardiff.
Designed his own airship at
the age of nineteen, made
his first flight in 1905 and
became the first to fly across
the English Channel, from
London to Paris, in 1910.
1893 – 1973
Sir Clement Price-Thomas.
b. Abercarn.
Pioneer of the treatment of
chest disorders with radium.
1888 – 1962
Dr Ezer Griffiths.
b. Aberdare.
Leading authority on
the study of heat and
refrigeration.
1877 – 1910
The Hon Charles Stewart
Rolls. b. Monmouth.
Motorist, aviator and joint
founder of Rolls-Royce.
1872 – 1970
Earl Bertrand Russell.
b. Trellech, Monmouth.
Pioneer of the study of
mathematical logic.
1866 – 1959
Clarence Seyler.
Leading authority on the
analysis of coal, carrying out
his chemical classifications
at Swansea.
1857 – 1932
Dr Martha Maria Cannon.
b. Llandudno
Pioneer of health measures
and women’s rights in
the USA, where she had
emigrated with her parents
in 1858, becoming one of the
first Utah women to receive
the degree of M.D. and the
first woman state senator in
the USA.
1850 – 1885
Sidney Gilchrist Thomas.
And his cousin Percy Carlisle
Gilchrist. Developed furnace
linings at Blaenafon enabling
enabled iron to be smelted
from phosphatic iron ores
and then used in steel
making. The ‘basic’ slag
from the smelting became a
valuable phosphate fertiliser.
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