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 162,259 pages of information and 244,500 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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John Rowley (Instrument Maker)

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of Fleet Street, London

Regarded as being the first to make planetaria with clockwork movements (orreries). Rowley took over the workshop established by a Mr. Worgan, and in turn the business passed successively to Thomas Wright, Benjamin Cole, and John and Edward Troughton (1782).

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