Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 166,784 pages of information and 246,602 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.
1860 David Joy invented a special form of steam hammer. He started in business for himself at the Cleveland Engine Works, Middlesbrough, to manufacture the hammer.
For some years he was continuously engaged in inventing new machinery of various kinds.
1871 The works were closed when the ground was needed for extension of the ship-building yards
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