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 162,257 pages of information and 244,499 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 Robert Lake

From Graces Guide

1869 Patent. '425. And William Robert Lake, of the "International Patent Office," No. 8, Southampton buildings, Chancery-lane, in the county of Middlesex, Consulting Engineer, has given the like notice in respect of the invention of "an improved water velocipede." — A communication to him from abroad by Jules Marie de la Rue, Attache of the French Ministry of Marine, of Paris, in the Empire of France.'[1]

1883 Became a Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers

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Sources of Information

  1. [1] Gazette Issue 23500 published on the 25 May 1869. Page 6 of 56