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 VIII.: George Beadon

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90 BEADON, GEORGE, Captain, R.N., Creechbarrow, Taunton, Somersetshire — Inventor.

Prince Alfred's mirror: a glass mounted upon a nautical adjustment for glasses.

Universal rowlocks, applicable for any description of oar.

Whale gun, for projecting harpoons with precision.

Boat safety reel, to prevent the upsetting of boats in squalls.

Life-raft for ships; a folding catamaran hung at the stern, and occupying little room; the operation of lowering prepares it for use.

Mast clamp, to facilitate stepping or lowering boats' masts.

Gun elevator, for artillery.

Illustrations of a new system of propulsion, upon a scale of an inch to a cubit.

Indicating or filter cock, to draw off liquids without disturbing the sediment.

Phaeton hood-lifter, for raising or lowering heads of phaetons.

Improved door, obviating draughts, etc.

Nearly all these inventions comprise certain parts for which patents have been taken.

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