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 167,649 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.

Museum of the History of Science

From Graces Guide
Hispano-Moorish astrolabe, made in Seville, 1221 AD
Astrolabe by Arsenius of Louvain, 1565
Back of 1565 astrolabe
Microscope by Thomas Grubb of Dublin
On left: ellipsograph designed by Joseph Clement and made by Holtzapffel and Deyerlein, 1819. On right: Farey's ellipsograph made by W. and S. Jones, c.1815

Broad Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX1 3AZ.

A superb collection of early scientific instruments displayed in 'the world’s oldest surviving purpose-built museum building', the Old Ashmolean.


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