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 162,253 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.

Tooth and Yates

From Graces Guide

1860 Messrs Tooth and Yates patented a mechanical puddling furnace[1]

1861 The puddling machine was at work at 21, Rhodeswell-road, Stepney; samples were shown at the Society of Arts Exhibition[2].

1861 Patent to William Henry Tooth, of Rhodeswell-road, Middlesex, Engineer, and William Yates the younger, of Parliament-street, Westminster, Agent, in respect of the invention of "improvements in the manufacture of iron and steel, and in the machinery, apparatus, or furnaces used therein, and for the production of gas to be employed in such manufacture"[3]

1873 William Yates of Westminster wrote to The Engineer about materials for lining reverbatory furnaces, mentioning his patent of 1868

1873 William Yates, C. Engineer, of Covent Garden[4]


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Sources of Information

  1. The Engineer 1874/10/09
  2. The Engineer 1861/04/05
  3. London Gazette 25 March 1862
  4. London Electoral register