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 Stier - 1999, Professor at the Techical University of Graz, Austria Wilhelm Stier - Familytree - Family member. Wilhelm Stier Wilhelm Stier (born May 8, 1799 in Błonie near Warsaw, died September 19, 1856 in Schöneberg, full name: Friedrich Ludwig Wilhelm Stier) was a German architect and university teacher at the Berlin Bauakademie. Wilhelm Stier was born the son of Christiane Eleonora Stiers 1766 - & Friedrich Ludewik Stier 1765 - 1815 a German postmaster & taxman in the then Prussian province of South Prussia & then Wilhelms family moved to Silesia. Wilhelm Stier was Grand son to Medical Officer /