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- ↑ Sharp, Robert (2004). "Coles, Sherard Osborn Cowper- (1866–1936), electrometallurgist and inventor" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/72803. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
