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 162,260 pages of information and 244,501 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.

Jonval

From Graces Guide

c.1838 M. Jonval brought out his first model of turbine wheel.

1841 He patented the wheel, which works on the same principle as the Fourneyron wheel but with a different mode of action.

1841 Construction of the wheels on a larger scale started at the works of Andre Koechlin et Cie of Mulhouse

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Sources of Information

  • The Engineer 1862/08/08