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-| name                      = Sarah Guppy
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-| nationality               = [[England|English]]
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-| birth_name                = Sarah Beach
-| birth_date                = 1770
-| birth_place               = [[Birmingham, England]]
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-| spouse                    = Samuel Guppy; Richard Eyre-Coote, m. 1837
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-| children                  = Six children, including Thomas Richard, Grace and Sarah
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-| significant_design   = A tea or [[coffee urn]] that also cooked eggs, the [[Exhaust hood|fire hood]], a [[candlestick]] that made candles burn longer
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-'''Sarah Guppy''', née '''Beach''' (1770–1852) was an English inventor who contributed to the design of Britain's [[infrastructure]] and developed several domestic products.
-==Early history and inventions==
-Sarah Guppy was born in [[Birmingham, England]]. In 1811 she patented the first of her inventions, a method of making safe piling for bridges. [[Thomas Telford]] asked her for permission to use her patented design for suspension bridge foundations, and she granted it to him free of charge.{{Citation needed|date=September 2011}} As a friend of [[Isambard Kingdom Brunel]] and his family she became involved in the [[Great Western Railway]], writing to the directors with ideas and giving her support. In 1841 she wrote a letter recommending planting [[willow]]s and [[Populus|poplars]] to stabilise [[embankment (transportation)|embankment]]s. She continued to offer technical advice despite the fact that, as she wrote, "it is unpleasant to speak of oneself—it may seem boastful particularly in a woman."<ref>PRO RAIL 1014/8/7</ref>
-==Patents and publications==
-[[File:Houghton EC8.Ed377.Y800g - Mrs. Guppy's Dialogues for Children, 1800 - cover.jpg|thumb|Cover of ''Dialogues for Children'', 1800]]
-The family took out 10 patents in the first half of the nineteenth century, including a method of keeping ships free of [[barnacle]]s that led to a government contract worth £40,000. Other inventions included a bed with built-in exercise equipment, a device for a tea or [[coffee urn]] which would cook eggs in the steam as well as having a small dish to keep toast warm and a device for "improvements in [[caulking]] ships, boats and other vessels." In later life she wrote ''[[The Cottagers and Labourers Friend]]'' and ''[[Dialogues for Children]]'', invented the [[Exhaust hood|fire hood]] or Cook’s Comforter, and patented a new type of [[candlestick]] that enabled candles to burn longer.<ref>[http://www.docstoc.com/docs/2290950/One-Hundred-Key-Facts-on-the-Bristol-City-region-and-Science One Hundred Ke Facts on the Bristol City – region and Science]</ref><ref>[http://www.openplaques.org/plaques/93 Plague #93 – Open Plagues]</ref>
-==Marriage and family==
-She married [[Bristol]] merchant Samuel Guppy and lived in [[Queen Square, Bristol|Queen Square]] and Prince Street,<ref>Bristol Record Office BCC/F/E/3285, BCC/F/E/3140</ref> a leading light of the Bristol and [[Clifton, Bristol|Clifton]] social scene. The couple had six children, including Thomas Richard, Grace and Sarah. Although Thomas Richard went into the family’s sugar refining business, he later became an engineer and was an associate of Brunel, contributing significantly to the design of [[SS Great Western|SS ''Great Western'']] and [[SS Great Britain|SS ''Great Britain'']]. Brunel painted a portrait of the younger Sarah Guppy c. 1836.<ref>[http://www.amazon.co.uk/Brunel-Love-Impossible-Andrew-Kelly/dp/0955074207 Brunel: 'In Love with the Impossible'] Amazon.co.uk</ref>
-==Later life==
-In 1837 the widowed Sarah, now 67, married Richard Eyre-Coote, 28 years her junior. For a while they lived at [[Arnos Court]], [[Brislington]], but Richard ran through his rich wife's money at a rapid rate, spending on horses and neglecting her. Sarah moved into 7 [[Richmond Hill, Clifton]] in 1842. She bought the land opposite the house for the benefit of Clifton residents and it still remains green space.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/bristol/content/articles/2006/03/28/showstrength_feature.shtml BBC – Bristol – Entertainment – Shows of strength]</ref>
-==Notes and references==
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-[[Category:People of the Industrial Revolution]]
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-[[Category:Women in engineering]]
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