Joseph Hinks
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Joseph Hinks was a British inventor, working in Birmingham. He patented improvements to oil lamps, marketing the resultant Duplex lamp.
The company, James Hinks & Son, of 91-96 Great Hampton Street and 66 Hockley Street, Birmingham, were established before 1865.
He is buried in Key Hill Cemetery in Birmingham.
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Bibliography
- Lamp For Burning Petroleum, James Hinks and Joseph Hinks, in Scientific American, Vol. 17, No. 26 December 28, 1867. (extract)
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