Francis Thomas Bacon, known as Tom, was an English engineer who in 1932 developed the first practical hydrogen-oxygen fuel cell, a device used to generate power for space capsules and satellites. He was an OBE, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Royal Society. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Francis Thomas "Tom" Bacon OBE FREng FRS (21 December 1904-24 May 1992) was an English engineer who in 1932 developed the first practical hydrogen-oxygen fuel cell.
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