William Harris - Engineers, Inventors and Scientists

Engineers, Inventors and Scientists

  • William Cornwallis Harris (1807–1848), English military engineer, artist and hunter
  • Sir William Gordon Harris (1912–2005), British civil engineer
  • William Snow Harris (1791–1867), invented a ship-borne lightning rod
  • William Harris, former director general of Science Foundation Ireland

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