Edward Hope Kirkby They are buried together at Waverley Cemetery. So ended a life of invention largely unrecognised as biographers of George Taylor and Archibald Shaw claimed all the credit for them for Kirkby’s endeavours. Edward Hope Kirkby was a jeweler watchmaker in Williamstown who eventually became a manufacturing electrician making systems of fire protection, in 1908 he invented and patented the first automatic sprinkler alarm. He is first recorded as experimenting with X-ray in September 1896 This is only 9 months after Roentgen presented his discovery of X-rays. He is reported as experimenting with the medical staff at Williamstown Hospital later that
Wilhelm Dürr the Younger assistant professor at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts and, in 1892, professor. There he taught mainly life classes. At the end of his life, he was seriously ill and only painted a few pictures. In Dachau, Wilhelm-Dürr-Straße is named in honour of the painter. Wilhelm Dürr the Younger Wilhelm Dürr the Younger (24 August 1857, Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden – 23 February 1900, Munich) was a German painter and draughtsman, as well as a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Dürr was the son of the painter Wilhelm Dürr the Elder (1815–1890) and his wife Berta