John Dennett

John Dennett (1790–1852) was an English inventor and antiquary. He invented Dennett's Life-Saving Rocket Apparatus for saving shipwrecked crewmen in 1832, and was made custodian of Carisbrooke Castle. He contributed to the journal of the British Archaeological Association.

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