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 167,665 pages of information and 247,074 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.

Thomas Parry Osborne Yale

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Thomas Parry Osborne Yale (1868- ) Electrical and Motor Car Engineer, Blaenau-Festiniog, North Wales

1919 of Blaenau-Festiniog, North Wales.[1]

1922 M.I.E.E., Electrical and Motor Car Engineer, Blaenau-Festiniog, North Wales. T. A.: "Yale, Bettws-y-Coed." b. 1868; third s. of late W. C. Yale-Jones-Parry of Madryn Castle, Carnarvonshire. Ed. Marlborough College, Germany, France, U.S.A., Faraday House. With Ernest Scott and Mountain, Newcastle-on-Tyne. Discovered the "quick-stirring" process in electroplating, by which means the rate at which some metals could be satisfactorily deposited was increased enormously, e.g., zinc by a thousand-fold faster than the generally-accepted rate laid down by Professor Kiliani of Munich. Founded the Yale Electric Power Co., Ltd., at Blaenau-Festiniog, North Wales, which is the first hydro-electric plant for the supply of power to the public in Great Britain, without auxiliary steam or gas. Founded the Bettws-y-Coed Motor Co.

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