Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,711 pages of information and 247,105 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class IX.: David Harkes

From Graces Guide

23. HARKES, DAVID, Mere, near Nutsford — Inventor and Manufacturer.

Plough, with the joints welded instead of being connected by bolts and screws, and improved mould-board; it can be used with or without wheels.

Parallel expanding horse-hoe, for hoeing between turnips, potatoes, etc.; it can be set to any required width by a lever fixed between the handles, without stopping the horses.

Cheese and cider press, operating on the principle of a steelyard, which can be regulated to any pressure.

Hay-cutter.

Machine for screening clay for bricks, tiles, pipes, etc.

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