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1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class VII.: Robert Rettie

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Rettie's Marine Signals etc.

159 RETTIE, ROBERT, Edinburgh — Inventor.

Inventions for use at sea, consisting of lamps, lights, lighthouse apparatus, reflectors, signals, life-boats, fire-extinguisher, breakwater, etc. The following cut represents some of these.

Inventions for use in mines, railways, towns, and houses, consisting of safety lamps, "corves" or cages, shields, ropes, and traps; signals, fog, day, etc. Ventilating apparatus; sewer and effluvia traps; portable closet, glazed jointed pipes, etc.

Stoves for heating large buildings, rainoneurs, smoke preventers, vegetable-steamers, bottling cranes, fire-protectors, etc.


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