Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,649 pages of information and 247,065 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.
British arm of the American Cowles Electric Smelting and Aluminum Co
1887 'A gigantic dynamo for the works of the Cowles Electric Smelting and Aluminium Company, at Stoke-on-Trent, is now in course of erection. The machine has been built by Messrs. R. E. Crompton and Co., of the Arc Works, Chelmsford, and will have a minimum capacity of 300,000 watts, requiring 500 horse power to drive it.'[1]
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