George Smart (inventor)

George Smart (1757/8–1834)^[1] was a British inventor, known for the invention of a device to clean chimneys, called the "scandiscope".^[2] He was awarded the Royal Society of Arts gold medal in 1805^[3] for his invention, due to its potential for stopping the practice of making small children climb inside chimneys to clean them.

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