deaths
August 14, 1909
William Stanley, British engineer and author (born 1829)
William Stanley (inventor)
William Ford Robinson Stanley was an English inventor with 78 patents filed in both the United Kingdom and the United States of America. He was an engineer who designed and made precision drawing and mathematical instruments, as well as surveying instruments and telescopes, manufactured by his company "William Ford Stanley and Co. Ltd."
August 14
August 14 is the 226th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 139 days remain until the end of the year.