5/29/2023 0 Comments The Soul of Things; Or, Psychometric Researches and Discoveries by William Denton![]() ![]() He was a member of the New Shildon Mechanics Institute. At the age of fourteen he received workshop skills as an apprentice to Timothy Hackworth the pioneering railway and marine engineer at his Soho Works in Shildon. A Baptist teacher named William Shotton made a special impression on him, with demonstration of a home-made galvanic cell. He began to read books from the age of four and at the age of eight he could recite chapters of the Bible from memory. He was educated by his mother's friend Nelly Sedgwick who ran a small school before going to the British Penny School in Darlington. 1870ĭenton was born at Darlington, Durham. ![]() ![]() Poster for Denton's travelling lectures made by his son Sherman Foote Denton, c. ![]()
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