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 167,647 pages of information and 247,064 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.

John Leo Nicolas

From Graces Guide

Mechanical engineer.

1840 Patented a kind of movable or portable railway, or road, which was laid down, travelled over, taken up and carried by the machine itself. [1]

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Sources of Information

  1. The Engineer 1917/08/10