George Cayley black plaque

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# The Royal Polytechnic Institution Standing before the elegant facade of 309 Regent Street, you are witnessing the birthplace of one of Victorian England's most innovative institutions. Between 1838 and 1839, George Cayley—an engineer whose mind seemed perpetually fixed on the possibilities of hum...

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309 Regent Street

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George Cayley engineer & inventor established on this site the Royal Polytechnic Institution 1838-1839