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.: J. Slight

From Graces Guide

42. SLIGHT, J., 34 Leith Walk, Edinburgh — Manufacturer.

A Tweeddale subsoil trench plough; an improvement on Read's by the Marquis of Tweeddale.

The Tweeddale trench plough, invented by the same, for the purpose of taking a furrow slice fourteen inches deep as a precursor to the former.

Model of Henderson's patent derrick crane.

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