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 162,253 pages of information and 244,496 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.

Benjamin Davies (1863- )

From Graces Guide

A.M.I.E.E., F.Inst.P.

1863 Born son of David and Hannah Davies, in Bronwydd.

Educated at Llangunllo, Aberbanc, Horeb, Liverpool Inst., Liverpool Coll. of Chemistry, and Univ. Coll., Liverpool.

1890 published "The Evolution of the Harp" and "Electrical Ignition in Gas Engines"

1893 Private Asst. in Research, Sir Oliver Lodge

1893 Published "Long Range Measuring Instruments"

1896 Published "All Metal X-Ray Tube"

1908 Staff, Eastern Telegraph Co.

WWI Admiralty research under Board of Invention and Research.

1917 Published "First Principles of Material Well Being"

Chief of Research Dept., Eastern and Associated Telegraph Companies.

1920 Published "Force in Peace and War"

Retired in 1922.

1931 Published "Detection of Added Water in Milk"

1935 Published physical analysis of and "Detection of Added Water in Milk"

1937 Published " The New Social Order"

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