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 162,258 pages of information and 244,500 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 VIII.: Anderson and Gilbert

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192. ADDISON and GILBERT, Emmett Street, Poplar — Inventors.

Two models, one of a patent main-topsail, and the other of a patent jib, showing the graduated variation in the width of the seams used in making sails; intended to give greater strength and durability to the sails, with less canvas.


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