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 167,716 pages of information and 247,105 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.

Robert Smith

From Graces Guide

1860 A shipowner, of Finsbury, he applied to the Patent Office, to protect his system for keeping vessels from fouling and worming by application of equal parts of pitch, tar, resin, and turpentine, with adhesive[1]

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Sources of Information

  1. The Engineer 1863