Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class VII.: Hannibal Gardner

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50. GARDNER, HANNIBAL, 3 Essex Street, Islington — Inventor.

Double cone blocks, or artificial hollow stones for building wharf and sea walls, docks, harbours, breakwaters, lighthouses, baths, warehouses, etc. The object is to facilitate building in water to any depth without damming, and with unusual rapidity; when the cavities are filled in with cement or concrete, a solid mass is formed.

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