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 167,701 pages of information and 247,104 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.: John Robinson

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100. ROBINSON, JOBN, 6 Patteson Street, Stepney — Inventor and Proprietor.

Three life-boats, which will free themselves speedily of water, and immediately right themselves in the event of being upset.

Three patent steering machines, for ships or other craft, intended to economise space, with a spring rudder.

Two patent machines, for raising weights, weighing anchor, etc., with facility, giving the ship chain, without surging on the windlass.

Patent new pumping machine, for raising water from the hold of a vessel.

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