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 164,561 pages of information and 246,142 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.

National Museum of Scotland

From Graces Guide
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1786 Boulton and Watt engine, originally installed in the Southwark Brewery of Barclay, Perkins and Co
c.1860s steeple engine, used at St. Leonard's Brewery 1868-1931. The Gothic-style frame, and the flywheel with wrought iron spokes, hark back to an earlier era, while the use of round slide bars is unusual

Chambers Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1JF.

"The corner stone of this building was laid by the lamented Prince Consort, on the 23rd of October 1861. It is intended to receive the collection of natural and manufactured..." Extracted from The Engineer 1862/11/28. p. 315.

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