Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,255 pages of information and 244,496 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.
Richard Weldon ( -1804)
1804 Died. 'Lately died at Clifton, Mr. Richard Weldon, engineer; a young man of extraordinary natural as well as acquired abilities. He was the inventor of the lock on the Somerset Coal Canal; the failure of the masonry of which, and not any failure in the invention, much injured his health and spirits.'[1]
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