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Joseph Bramah

A portrait depicts Joseph Bramah, a Yorkshire-born inventor from 1748 to 1814, wearing formal attire with a white cravat and a dark jacket, set against a dark background.

Yorkshire-born inventor (1748–1814) responsible for the hydraulic press, the modern flush water closet, and the Bramah lock — a high-security pin-tumbler design that resisted picking for forty-seven years. Bramah needed components cut more precisely than any workman of the day could manage, which is why he hired the eighteen-year-old Henry Maudslay and effectively bankrolled the birth of the modern machine tool.

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