About Joseph Woods
Lived 1816 – 1849 (aged 32–33). Joseph Woods was a mechanical engineer and engineer.
Joseph Woods (1816 - 1849) was an English engineer and entrepreneur active in the middle of the nineteenth century. He worked closely with William Siemens when the later first came to England.
Woods was born in London in 1816, the son of Samuel Woods, a merchant.
In 1844 Joseph Woods registered the patent for anastatic lithography with the British Patent Office.
In 1847 he was a founding member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, being allocated membership number 56.
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Who was Joseph Woods?
English engineer and entrepreneur
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Joseph Woods was born in 1816.
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Joseph Woods died in 1849.
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Joseph Woods was a mechanical engineer and engineer.
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