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 167,669 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.

William Naylor

From Graces Guide
1858.
1858. Double-Acting Steam Hammer.

of Norwich

1855 Improvements to the steam-hammer. Described and illustrated in The Practical Mechanic's Journal, 1856.

1858 of Bracondale, Norwich.[1]

1859 The Practical Mechanic's Journal of July included drawings of steam hammers designed by W. Naylor of 3 Old Broad Street, London, 'an indefatigable worker for the improvement of steam or mechanically acting hammers', and made by the Kirkstall Forge Co.

Drawing of a Naylor-type double-acting steam hammer here [2], made by Varrall, Elwell and Poulet.

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Sources of Information

  1. 1858 Institution of Mechanical Engineers
  2. [1] BnF Gallica website: Livre Des Machines-outils, leur importance, leur utilité, progrès apportés dans leur Fabrication by J. Chrétien, 1863