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 162,238 pages of information and 244,492 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 Palmer

From Graces Guide
1859. Railway brake and coupling apparatus.

Engineer of Long Eaton, Derbyshire.

1812 Patented the use of a connected series of endless chain of rollers a s substitute for the wheels of carriages. There were, according to Mr. Young, two applications of this invention-one as revolving rollers, and the other revolving roller wheels. [1]

1859 Railway brake and coupling apparatus. [2]

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Sources of Information

  1. The Engineer 1917/08/10
  2. See 1859 image from The Engineer vol 8, page 312.