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 Thornton

From Graces Guide

211. THORNTON, DAVID, Ratho, by Edinburgh — Designer.

Design for an arrangement of farm building, in which accommodation is provided for storing the grain crops under cover, in order to protect them from the weather, incendiaries, or thieves.

Model of a cheap form of field-drain, adapted for districts where neither tiles nor stones are available.


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