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 167,859 pages of information and 247,161 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 VII.: John Barclay

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117. BARCLAY, JOHN, Tongue by Goldspie, Scotland — Designer and Inventor.

A portable pressing machine, designed for copying letters and for other purposes.

Model of a wooden float bridge and appendages; applicable to narrow straits or rivers in calm situations.

Mechanical time and tide tables, for ascertaining the number of days from any period in one year, to any other period in the same or following year; the day of the week or month; the state of the tide at any given port; the moon's age, etc.

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