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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1777 Presented a paper to the Royal Society which was summarised by Farey in 1827 in his Treatise on the Steam Engine. Stewart had invented a plan involving a pair of endless chains and ratchet gear for "converting the reciprocating motion of the fire-engine into a progressive circular motion for turning all kinds of mills".[1]
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