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 167,701 pages of information and 247,104 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.

The Engineer 1857/04/17

From Graces Guide

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Main Subjects

  • Dumery's Improvements in Steam Engines - patented 4th September 1856, p 303. (Illustrated).
  • Editorial, p 311.
    • Re-Inventing - Iron-Making.
    • Colliery Explosions.
    • Farm Labourers of the Midland Counties.
    • Growth of Cotton in India.
    • April Showers.
  • Fletcher's Weighing Cranes - patented 30th August 1856, p 302. (Illustrated).
  • Iron and Steel Manufacture, p 306.
  • Iron Smelting in Australia, p 313.
  • Jobard's Improvements in Lamps - patented 3rd September 1856, p 302.
  • Manufacture of Guano in London, p 302.
  • Moberly's Improvements in Grinding and Polishing Surfaces - patented 4th September 1856, p 303.
  • Newton's Machinery for Combing Fibrous Substances - patented 27th August 1856, p 306. (Illustrated). (Illustrated).
  • Newton's Machinery for Cutting Round Files - patented 6th September 1856, p 307.
  • Passenger Traffic from Australia, p 314.
  • Rent Crisis in Paris, p 305.

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