Sherard Osborn Cowper-Coles was a British metallurgist and inventor who lived from 1866 to 1936, and who is known as the inventor of the sherardising process of galvanization. He was born in Ventnor, the fourth son of the naval inventor Captain Cowper Phipps Coles, studied at King's College London and at the Crystal Palace School of Engineering, and became a metallurgist. He took out a patent on the sherardising process in 1900. He married his research assistant Constance Hamilton Watts in 1919, and the couple continued to work on research together until his death.
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Sherard Osborn Cowper-Coles (8 October 1866-9 September 1936) was a British metallurgist, and inventor of the sherardising process of galvanization.
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The process is named after British metallurgist Sherard Osborn Cowper-Coles (son of naval inventor Cowper Phipps Coles) who invented and patented the method c. 1900.
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