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 162,259 pages of information and 244,500 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 Wilson (6)

From Graces Guide
1856. Wilson's Power loom [1]

On his petition, recorded in the Office of the Commissioners on the 11th day of October, 1856, #2428 to George Wilson, of Glasgow, in the county of Lanark, North Britain, Manufacturer, for the invention of "improvements in power looms." [2]


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Sources of Information

  1. The Engineer 1857/05/29
  2. London Gazette 14 November 1856