Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,258 pages of information and 244,500 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Leonard Fuller

From Graces Guide

Leonard Fuller (1874-1969)

1874 Born in West Ham[1], son of George Fuller and grandson of John Crisp Fuller

1891 Working for J. C. Fuller and Son at Newcastle Wharf Telegraph Works, Bow and attending Finsbury college; admitted as student member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers[2]

1891 With his father, George Fuller, and brother George John Andrew Fuller, was a manufacturing electrical engineer[3]

1895 Admitted as Associate of the Institution[4]

1908 Various patents with George Fuller on the electrical heating of water

1910 Patent with George Fuller and George John Andrew Fuller (trading as J. C. Fuller and Son) on "Improvements in and relating to Electric Dry Batteries"

1911 Patent with George Fuller and George John Andrew Fuller on "Improvements in and connected with Electric Accumulators" and several more on this subject in the following years

1913 Member of the Institution, of Frinton-on-Sea

1919 Patent with the Fuller's United Electric Works on "Improvements in or relating to the bodies of motor cars and the like"

1926 Fuller's United Electric Works was taken over by the Accumulator Manufacturers Association

1941 With Harold Dennis Lark and Edmund William Sudlow, patented various improvements to electric storage batteries for Varley Dry Accumulators of Barking

1945 With Edmund William Sudlow, patented improvement to secondary battery for Varley Dry Accumulators of Barking

1969 Leonard Fuller (b. 10 April 1874) died in Kensington[5]


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Sources of Information

  1. BMD
  2. UK, Electrical Engineer Membership Forms, 1871–1901
  3. 1891 census
  4. UK, Electrical Engineer Lists, 1871-1930
  5. Death Index