George William Manby

George William Manby ( born November 28, 1765 in Denver, Norfolk; † November 18, 1854 in Great Yarmouth ) was an English inventor of devices to rescue shipwreck.

George William Manby possibly studied mathematics and then visited the en: Cambridgeshire Militia where he attained the rank of captain. In 1793 he married a woman named Preston and returned to Denver. In 1801 he settled in Clifton, near Briston and devoted himself to writing and illustrating his works. One of his most crucial inventions was, inter alia, an early ancestor of the portable fire extinguisher.

After a storm in February 1807 in which 67 people crashed on a ship near Yarmouth, he built a mortar with a rope could be shot to the ship.

Works

  • The History and Antiquities of St. David 's ( 1801)
  • Sketches of the History and Natural Beauties of Clifton (1802 )
  • A Guide from Clifton to the Counties of Monmouth, Glamorgan, etc. ( 1802)
  • Journal of a voyage to Greenland in the year 1821
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