Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,258 pages of information and 244,500 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 Wood of Fairmount Machine Works, Philadelphia, USA
He immigrated to the USA from Leeds, England in 1830, and was apprenticed as a millwright to Brown & McLeod of Philadelphia. In 1839 he founded the Fairmount Machine Works with his brother John Wood. He retired in 1888, and died on 30 April 1899, age 85, in Philadelphia [1] [2]
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