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 167,669 pages of information and 247,074 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.

Frederic Alfred Anderson

From Graces Guide

Frederic Alfred Anderson

1867 Born in Erith, son of William Anderson

1889 His father was undertaking a project to design machinery for the manufacture of the new explosive, Cordite. On his appointment as Director General of Ordnance Factories, the Cordite machinery project was passed to Frederick.

Career: chemist with firms engaged in water purification; later in charge of engineering laboratory, and subsequently in consulting engineering.

By 1939, Chief Engineer, Edward Barrs, Consulting Engineers, 10 Gray's Inn Place, Holborn, W.C.1.

Wrote a book on “Boiler Feed Water" in the "Electrician" series.

1941 Died in Ramsey, Isle of Man


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