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pressures. In 1862 he invented the
Electro-Mechanical Chronoscope to measure small time intervals between triggers inserted into a gun to determine the acceleration of projectiles as they travelled down the barrel, allowing him to assess the performance of different powders.
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effective retirement from active control in about 1890, Noble's primary role changed from scientist to businessman, formally becoming chairman in 1900, and he oversaw much of this growth of the company. Noble claimed that all the
Japanese guns which sank the
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Wretham Hall, Norfolk in a William and Mary style. Following the near-collapse of Armstrongs in 1927 Wretham was demolished, and Saxton commissioned designs for a topiary garden representing the plan of a huge house for the site from Sir
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and carried out research on the subject. In 1859 he became
Assistant-Inspector of Artillery and in 1860 a member of the Ordnance Select Committee and of the Committee on Explosives, remaining on the committee until it was dissolved in 1880.
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Noble's first and second sons George and Saxton became successively second and third baronets, while his third son John Noble, also involved with
Armstrongs, was created a baronet in his own right in 1923. The latter's youngest son
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to double the size of the house adding a west wing, billiard room, Gothic porch, Great Hall and a range of bedrooms. In 1894 he also built a
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cricketer and poet who was
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Baronet in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom (1902)
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estate on Loch Fyne in Argyllshire, commissioning Sir
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