Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,701 pages of information and 247,104 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.
'...R. W. Thompson who went out to Batavia, realised a handsome fortune, and married a clever wife (Miss hertz), came home and invented the traction engine, which goes by his name, distinguished by having india-rubber wheel tyres. He died in Edinburgh..'[1]
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