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 167,676 pages of information and 247,074 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 VI.: Andrew Shanks

From Graces Guide

210. SHANKS, ANDREW, 6 Robert Street, Adelphi — Inventor and Manufacturer.

Bolt screwing and tapping machine. This machine cuts a perfect screw at one operation, and not by successive cuts.

Improved high-pressure steam engine.

Detail planing machines, one being for hand power for opticians and amateurs.

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