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 162,257 pages of information and 244,498 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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James Steel (1792-1891)

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1792 James Steel was born. He became a brewer, inventor and councillor.

Steel inherited his father's brewery in Tureen Street, Calton.

1853 The brewery was relocated to Greenhead Street.

1858 He acquired the Craigend Brewery in Edinburgh.

1865 James Steel took George Coulson as a partner, and together they formed Steel, Coulson and Co. The partnership was later dissolved.

James Steel was a talented mechanical engineer and inventor. Among his inventions were a malt masher and the Steel MacInnes Brake for railway carriages.

1891 James Steel died.

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