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 167,647 pages of information and 247,064 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.

Alexander Crichton

From Graces Guide

Engineer of Cork.

1861 Patented a lifting screw propeller

1870 Invented a surface condenser. Examples were installed in the steam launches of HMS Cambridge and HMS Lord Clyde.[1]

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Sources of Information

  1. [1] Engineering, 8 July 1870, p.23