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 162,349 pages of information and 244,505 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.: William Muir

From Graces Guide

206. MUIR, WILLIAM, Salford, Manchester — Manufacturer.

Amateur foot lathe, slide rest, eight gun-metal chucks, joiner's bench, tool-chest, and German cramp.

Large and small patent coffee-mill for grocers and private use.

Screw embossing press, for stamping envelopes, with dies, sets of alphabets, etc.

Lever embossing presses, for embossing crests, etc. Copying presses.

Screw-stocks, taps, master-taps, and tap-wrenches.

Machine taps and hand-screw tools.

Oil-testing machine. Invented by Emanuel Thomas, of Manchester.

Registered theodolite. Designed by Henry Goss, of Salford.

Specimens of embossing. Lithographs of copying and embossing presses.

Soap-cutting machine. Invented by Walter Storey, of Manchester.

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