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Bramah

American  
[bram-uh, brah-muh] / ˈbræm ə, ˈbrɑ mə /

noun

  1. Joseph, 1748–1814, English engineer and inventor.


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AJ Bramah scored 12 points with nine rebounds for the Colonials, while Jon Williams added 10 points.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 29, 2020

AJ Bramah added 12 points with eight boards and Jalen Hawkins also had 12 points.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 7, 2019

The manufacturers, much as Bramah had more than a century before in his shop on Piccadilly, granted the request with a kind of casually bemused interest.

From Slate ● Mar. 12, 2013

The Bramah Precision lock, a “monster” lock that, along with Chubb’s Detector, represented the pinnacle of Britain’s lock supremacy, had not been picked since it was manufactured—in 1790.

From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2013

It was not until 1795 that that powerful modern apparatus—the hydraulic, or hydrostatic, press was patented by Bramah in England.

From Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle

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