William Mills (inventor) William Mills (inventor) Sir William Mills (24 April 1856 - 1932) of Sunderland was an English engineer, who invented the Mills bomb which was developed and manufactured at his factory in Birmingham, England. The Mills bomb was the hand grenade most widely used by British and Imperial forces during the First World War. He was knighted in 1922. William Mills was born on 26 April 1856 in Wear Street, Southwick, Sunderland. He was the son of David Mills, a shipbuilder, and his wife Sarah Ann Kirkaldy. The Sunderland historian James Watson Corder recorded that David Mills had an interest in
U.S. Route 70 in North Carolina and studies were suspended. With the Super 70/ Interstate 42 project, studies for the southern alternate began again in 2016 and construction is tentatively scheduled to begin in 2025. The Kinston bypass will link to the Goldsboro Bypass and existing freeway around LaGrange in the west and the existing freeway section in Craven County to the east, resulting in a continuous freeway from Raleigh through New Bern (assuming the Wilson's Mills and Princeton projects are completed first, as planned). The highway will be between 21 and 25 miles long, and is expected to cost $379 Million. In James City, a