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 247,065 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 Rowley (Instrument Maker)

From Graces Guide

of Fleet Street, London

Regarded as being the first to make planetaria with clockwork movements (orreries). Rowley took over the workshop established by a Mr. Worgan, and in turn the business passed successively to Thomas Wright, Benjamin Cole, and John and Edward Troughton (1782).

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