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- ↑ Carlyle, E. I. (2004). "Savery, Thomas (1650?–1715)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/24733 . Retrieved 2011-11-05.(subscription or UK public library membership required)
- ↑ Majdalany, Fred (1959). The Red Rocks of Eddystone. London: Longmans. p. 49.
- ↑ "Advances in Aids to Navigation Technology" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-02. Retrieved 2011-07-14.
- ↑ BNF 12108388m