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 167,710 pages of information and 247,104 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.

George Davies (London)

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George Davies of Serle Street, Lincoln's Inn.

  • 1859 DAVIES' APPARATUS FOR PLANING ELECTROTYPE AND STEREOTYPE PLATES. Patent dated 31ST JULY, 1858. .... These improvements, a communication to George Davies of No. 1 Serle Street, Lincoln's Inn....'. Described and illustrated in The Engineer 1859/03/25. It was effectively a vertical milling machine, the 'planing' being done by a flycutter whose diameter was slightly greater than the width of the plates to be machined.

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