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Science & Medicine
Thomas Godfrey
1704–1749American optician and inventor
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One famous person was born in Bristol Township
Thomas Godfrey, the American optician and inventor, was born in 1704. Their birth falls before independence. 10 languages have an article about them. No town in Pennsylvania lists more than Bethlehem, with 78.
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- Poul Anderson: Slawomir Burzynski (burz[at]poczta.onet.pl), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- James Fenimore Cooper: John Wesley Jarvis, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ryan Gunderson: Anders H Foto, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Joseph Hughes: Robert LeRoy Knudsen, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Donn Pearce: John Cusatis, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Susan Hayhurst: Frederick Gutekunst, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Billy Gilbert: Chicago Daily News, Inc., photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons