Sir John Brown (6 December1816 - 27 December1896), British industrialist, was born in Sheffield. He was apprenticed at fourteen years old to a Sheffield firm manufacturing files and table cutlery. In 1848 Brown invented the conical steel spring buffer for railway carriages. In 1860, after seeing the French ship La Gloire armoured with hammered plate, he went on to produce armour using a rolling process, … Wikipedia
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