Alfred Rosling Bennett
Alfred Rosling Bennett (born March 14, 1850 in Islington , London , † May 24, 1928 in Matlock , Derbyshire ) was an English electrical engineer and pioneer of electrical lighting and the telephone.
Life
Bennett studied at the Bellevue Academy in Greenwich , London. He then took a job at the Indian Telegraph Office in 1869.
He returned to Great Britain in 1873 and was responsible for the introduction of electric lighting in the early 1880s. He received patents for an iron-alkaline battery , a ceramic telegraph - insulator and a phone - converters .
In 1895 he introduced a telephone system in Guernsey and later became an engineer with the public telephone companies in Glasgow , Royal Tunbridge Wells , Portsmouth , Brighton and Kingston upon Hull . He was also the first technical manager of the Jersey Telephone Company (now Jersey Telecom ) when it took over the system from the General Post Office in 1923 .
He was interested in railways all his life and was vice president of the Institution of Locomotive Engineers in 1911 .
Works
AR Bennett has written several books including:
- The First Railway in London (via the London and Greenwich Railway )
- Historic Locomotives
- London and Londoners in the 1850s and 1860s
- A Saga of Guernsey
- The Telephone Systems of the Continent of Europe
- The Chronicles of Boulton's Siding
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- Foreword by John Marshall to "The Chronicles of Boulton's Siding" by Alfred Rosling Bennett, published by David & Charles, 1971, ISBN 0-7153-5318-7
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| SURNAME | Bennett, Alfred Rosling |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English electrical engineer and pioneer of electrical lighting and the telephone |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 14, 1850 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Islington , London |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 24, 1928 |
| Place of death | Matlock, Derbyshire |