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 162,259 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.: W. R. Hawks

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136A HAWKS, W. R., Plantation House, Robin Hood's Bay, near Whitby — Inventor.

Model of life-boat, emptying itself, when full of water, in the short space of four seconds, by means of two apertures in the bottom.


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